Mysterious dust ring beyond Jupiter formed many of our Solar System’s earliest worlds
In the young Solar System, a dust trap beyond Jupiter may have built wildly different meteorite parent bodies…
Physicists believe that warp drive could exist in the next 100 years
Warp drive has long lived in science fiction, but physicists now treat it as a real, if deeply…
New discovery rewrites what we know about the speed of light
The speed of light remains one of physics’ firmest assumptions, but scientists still test whether it ever shifts…
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…
The case for water plumes on Europa just got much harder to make
Europa’s faint glow in ultraviolet light once looked like a possible water plume punching through ice. After 14…
Dark crater laser could standardize lunar navigation and timekeeping
A crater that never sees sunlight might sound like the wrong place to build delicate scientific equipment. Jun…
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…