New study reveals how dark matter formed shortly after the Big Bang
Dark matter may not have needed a calm, cold start to help build the universe. For decades, that…
This exoplanet, located about 25 light-years from Earth, could be habitable
ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An artist’s illustration showing an exoplanet and a star. Astronomers have recently conducted new…
AI can quickly spot and catalog lunar craters, but accuracy remains a major problem
The Moon’s cratered surface may seem like the perfect place to hand repetitive work to machines. There are…
JWST solves the mystery of the giant planet orbiting a dead star
A giant planet circling a dead star should not be there. That was the puzzle hanging over WD…
Nearby exoplanet just got more Earth-like and promising for life
GJ 3378b has moved closer to the kind of world astronomers most want to find: small, rocky, temperate,…
Astronomers have discovered a new millisecond pulsar in the Milky Way
ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An artist’s illustration showing two neutron stars and a planet. A team of astronomers…
12 billion years old interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS may be older than the solar system
3I/ATLAS arrived fast, bright, and strange. When astronomers spotted it on July 1, 2025, they knew almost immediately…
Strange beads of light on Ganymede look strikingly like Earth’s auroras
Ganymede’s auroras have always stood apart for one simple reason: this is a moon, not a planet, and…
Time may be an illusion derived from quantum entanglement
Time has always seemed like the one thing physics could count on. Matter changes, stars die, particles flicker…
Could alien minds be conscious? A new paper says yes
A mind wrapped in skin and bone can feel like the obvious model for consciousness. But that assumption…
Wormholes may enable time travel, astrophysicists find
A ring in space, at least on paper, can do something a black hole cannot. It can connect…
Astronomers discover faint dwarf galaxy that seems to exist without dark matter
A faint dwarf galaxy drifting 45 million light-years from Earth may have joined one of astronomy’s strangest clubs.…