CERN recreates cosmic ray collisions to reveal what happens when space particles hit Earth
Physicists at CERN have directly measured proton-oxygen collisions at 9.62 TeV per nucleon pair, closely recreating an important…
Les Neutrinos: The Ghosts of the Sun, The Great Neutrino Mystery
Dear readers, faithful companions of the lantern and the basketball, Before we speak of the stars, allow me…
NASA’s Fermi Mission Uncovers Possible Sibling Supernova Remnants
A new study of two supernova remnants, the debris left behind after stars explode, suggests the explosions came…
NASA’s Chandra Finds Unexpected Fireworks in Aftermath of Stellar Explosions
The aftermath of a supernova, a stellar explosion, is usually a slowly fading cloud of hot gas. So…
NASA’s Chandra Discovers Possible Supernova Remnant in Galactic Center
Using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers may have found a supernova remnant in an intriguing neighborhood…
NASA’s Fermi Glimpses Power Source of Supercharged Supernovae
An international team studying data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope concludes the mission detected a rare, unusually…
NASA X-Ray Mission Gets Fresh Look at 2,000-Year-Old Supernova
NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) mission has taken a new observation of a supernova, RCW 86, helping…
Ancient Milky Way stars challenge the age of the universe and the Hubble tension
The oldest stars in the Milky Way are forcing a fresh look at one of cosmology’s biggest arguments.…
Dark energy: what if the universe changed its destiny right before our eyes?
Dark energy: what if the universe changed its destiny right before our eyes? – Futura-Sciences January 27, 2026…
Astronomers may have detected a first-of-its-kind superkilonova
The three stages of a theoretical superkilonova are imagined in this artist’s concept. A rapidly spinning massive star’s…
NASA’s Webb Identifies Earliest Supernova to Date, Shows Host Galaxy
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has observed a supernova that exploded when the universe was only 730 million…
Webb Captures a Stunning Cosmic Structure We’ve Never Seen Before
The Webb telescope has unlocked a mystery in an exotic star system located approximately 8,000 light-years from Earth.…