Cosmic Voids May Contain the Universe’s Best Secrets
Nature abhors a vacuum, so the saying goes, but nobody told the universe. Space is filled with cosmic…
Tiny black holes may form out of a crystal-like state in spacetime
Microscopic black holes have long hovered at the edge of theory, forming only in exquisitely balanced states. Now…
Scientists May Have Found Dark Matter’s Fingerprint in a Black Hole Collision
Gravitational waves from colliding black holes may hold subtle clues about one of the universe’s greatest mysteries: dark…
Rocky planets smaller than Earth may be too small to stay habitable
While a planet can orbit around a Sun-like star and sit comfortably within its habitable zone, it could…
Jupiter-like exoplanet helping scientists rethink how solar systems form
A planet so distant that its starlight began traveling toward Earth around the Middle Ages has given one…
Jupiter’s jet streams dive into extreme atmospheric regions
Jupiter does not sit still. Its atmosphere races around the planet in more than 20 east-west jet streams,…
Faint black hole ‘ringing’ provides a sharper test of Einstein’s gravity
When two black holes crash together, the violence does not end at impact. The newly formed black hole…
The Universe may have begun inside a black hole, not a Big Bang
For nearly a century, modern cosmology has treated the Big Bang as the opening moment of everything, the…
Gravitational wave detectors can now tune themselves using black holes
Gravitational wave researchers working on the world’s most sensitive scientific instruments have found a way to tune their…
James Webb Telescope Reveals the Universe’s Hidden Cosmic Web in Stunning Detail
A slice through the COSMOS-Web cosmic-web map, showing galaxies across nearly 14 billion years of cosmic history. The…
The universe is significantly older than previously thought, astronomers find
Galaxies spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope have been causing trouble for the standard story of cosmic…
The biggest black holes grow by crashing into each other over and over again
Some of the biggest black holes ever picked up through gravitational waves may not have formed in a…