New global map finds recent tectonic activity across the Moon’s surface
Low, winding ridges run across the Moon’s dark plains like faint seams in cooled wax. They are easy…
How did massive elliptical galaxies appear so early after the Big Bang
Four galaxies crowd the center of a collapsing structure 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang. Each one…
New study uncovers the formative conditions that made Io dry and Europa watery
A moon can sit next door to another and still feel like a different world. Around Jupiter, that…
Event Horizon Telescope captures magnetic turbulence flickering at the edge of black hole M87*
For a few brief nights each year, you get a rare chance to watch a monster blink. The…
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…
Lunar asteroid strike in 2032 could trigger moonquakes and meteor storms on Earth
Late in 2024, astronomers spotted a new near-Earth asteroid named 2024 YR4. By mid-2025, its improved orbit tracking…
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,…
Researchers believe a satellite crash could happen in 5.5 days
Low Earth orbit now holds thousands of satellites, and the count keeps rising. That growth has made space…
Computer models reveal how early black holes grew so quickly after the Big Bang
Astronomers have long chased a hard question: how did black holes grow so huge so fast. Researchers at…
Hidden Martian deltas point to an ancient ocean covering half of Mars
Three billion years ago, you could have stood on Mars and watched a river spill into a sea.…
Laser Breakthrough Sharpens Radio Telescope Views of Black Holes
Radio telescopes let you study the universe by collecting faint radio waves from distant objects. To see extremely…
Einstein–Rosen bridges are not wormholes but quantum links between opposite directions of time
In an effort to bring together the domains of gravity and quantum theory, Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen…