Scientists use Einstein’s equations to reveal what came before the Big Bang
Some of the hardest questions in cosmology begin where the usual math gives up. Push Einstein’s theory far…
JWST finds salt clouds in the atmosphere of a strange Pink Planet
GJ 504 b has been one of astronomy’s stranger nearby worlds for years, a faint pink companion circling…
Sunday’s summer solstice is the sun’s time to shine in the Northern Hemisphere
This is the sun’s time to shine: Sunday is the longest day of the year in the Northern…
Evidence for protostellar jets as a population of hadronic gamma-ray sources
Shu, F. H., Adams, F. C. & Lizano, S. Star formation in molecular clouds: observation and theory. Annu.…
Scientists Say a New Universe Could Form Inside a Dying Star
An expanding mini-universe could counterbalance the collapsing matter of a star, thereby creating a stable gravastar. Credit: Daniel…
Compact dusty starbursts at cosmic noon linked to high-energy neutrinos
IceCube Collaboration Evidence for high-energy extraterrestrial neutrinos at the IceCube detector. Science 342, 1242856 (2013). Article Google Scholar …
Astronomers Confirm Dark Energy After Shock Challenge Rocked Cosmology
Astronomers have reaffirmed one of modern science’s most important discoveries: the universe is still expanding at an accelerating…
Astronomers fear orbital data centers will interfere with observations
WASHINGTON — As SpaceX gears up to start launching orbital data center spacecraft as soon as next year,…
Scientists Develop a New Way To Measure Gravitational Waves in the Expanding Universe
Gravitational waves are typically studied as faint disturbances moving through otherwise quiet spacetime, but the situation becomes far…
Collapsing stars could form gravastars instead of black holes
A black hole is supposed to be the last word in stellar collapse: matter falls inward, spacetime caves…
A supernova remnant may have been discovered in the Milky Way
ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An image showing the supernova SN 1993J. Thanks to the Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers…
Astronomers Find Strongest Evidence Yet for Magnetic Fields on Alien Worlds
This illustration shows magnetic activity in an exoplanet. The planet is a gas giant like Jupiter, but it’s…