Something Revealed Itself by Bending the Light of a Distant Star in 2019—Now Astronomers Are Racing to Find Out What It Was
For just an hour in late 2019, a cosmic mystery revealed itself to astronomers in an unprecedented way:…
Rare Blue Apogee Micromoon shines this weekend
The third of those four Full Moons in the season is the Blue Moon, with “Blue” being added…
The Fastest-Known Star Near the Milky Way’s Black Hole Has Been Spotted—Now It Could Help Test Einstein’s Theory of Gravity
The fastest-moving star, S301, was discovered recently by Stefan Gillessen’s team at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial…
The Universe Is Full of ‘Impossible’ Black Holes. Now Scientists Know Why
An international team of astrophysicists has found evidence that the universe recycles black holes, merging them to form…
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…
The dominance of turbulence over magnetism in the formation of massive star cluster seeds
Beuther, H., Kuiper, R. & Tafalla, M. Star formation from low to high mass: a comparative view. Annu.…
Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxies Could Unlock Secrets of the Early Universe
(A) Dark matter distribution in our neighborhood in the Universe, the so-called Local Group of galaxies. The two…
Radio Waves Reveal What Light Cannot: Emma Chapman Explains Before SKA Rewrites Astronomy
Two days after its publication, Emma Chapman’s new book on radio astronomy is already drawing wide media attention…
The Moon takes a bite out of the Sun over Canada this summer
Published on May. 21, 2026, 9:00 AM Unpack your eclipse glasses and cross your fingers for clear skies,…
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Nears Launch for Epic Hunt Across the Universe
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope could launch in 2026 and dramatically expand humanity’s view of the universe. The mission…
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…
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…