The Milky Way’s core may be dense dark matter, not a black hole
For decades, scientists have theorized that the Milky Way Galaxy’s supermassive black hole, known as Sagittarius A* (Sgr…
What are GRBs? A NASA researcher explains these strange space signals
There are those who like to point out that we know more about space than the ocean ,…
Astronomers find clearest evidence yet of a dark matter subhalo near the Sun
Astronomers at the University of Alabama in Huntsville may have found the closest evidence yet of a hidden…
Giant dark matter ‘sheet’ may shape galactic motion in the Milky Way
On a clear night, the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy look like close neighbors. In space, they…
Black hole ‘Jetty McJetface’ keeps brightening years after it shredded a star
A supermassive black hole with a case of cosmic indigestion has been burping out the remains of a…
Record-breaking neutrino points to exploding primordial black hole
A neutrino slammed into Earth in 2023 with so much energy that it looked almost unreal. The particle…
Largest sulfur-bearing molecule ever found in space links interstellar chemistry to life
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany and the Centro de AstrobiologÃa, part of…
AI Tool Uncovers Hundreds of Hidden Cosmic Oddities in Hubble Data
A team of astronomers based at the European Space Agency demonstrated how artificial intelligence technology will alter existing…
JWST confirmed the most distant galaxy ever observed at 13.5 billion light years away
With James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), NASA has confirmed its sightings of the farthest known galaxy to date,…
Radio telescopes reveal the final years of a rare exploding star
Astronomers have discovered the first radio signals from a unique category of dying stars, called Type Ibn supernovae,…
Alternative explanation for how celestial objects generate large-scale magnetic fields
RESEARCH BRIEFINGS 28 January 2026 Numerical simulations provide a mechanism that explains how celestial objects such as stars…
A cosmic anomaly suggests we need to rethink the shape of our universe
In recent years, Nobel Prize–winning physicist James Peebles, one of the main architects of the standard cosmological model,…