LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA detects hundreds of new gravitational waves
The international LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA Collaboration has completed its fourth and longest observing campaign, O4, marking a major milestone in…
4.6 billion years ago, Jupiter saved Earth during its formation
When the solar system formed about 4.6 billion years ago, a gigantic cloud of dust and gas collapsed…
Hubble Studies Star Ages in Colorful Galaxy
Stars of all ages are on display in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of the sparkling spiral…
What is the Leonids Meteor Shower? An Astrophysicist Explains
Stargazers rejoice: The Leonids are here. This annual meteor shower lights up the night sky every November and…
For the first time, astronomers observed the first moments of a supernova shock wave
Many cosmic events occur in space and sometimes surprise astronomers. This is the case of these scientists who…
Astronomers reveal what happened less than a second after the Big Bang
Cosmologists have traced the Big Bang’s earliest moments with great care, from the explosive inflation that set spacetime…
Europe’s NewAthena telescope to detect supermassive black holes at the edge of the universe
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) future space observatory, the NewAthena telescope, could detect an unprecedented number of supermassive…
This black hole released energy equivalent to 10,000 billion suns
Black holes are certainly one of the most powerful structures in the universe. And if you still had…
Even Dark Matter Can’t Catch a Break From Gravity, Study Suggests
There’s still a lot we don’t know about dark matter, or the “missing” mass supposedly constituting around 85%…
NASA’s James Webb Telescope maps 400-light-year-distant planet in 3D, revealing heat so extreme it breaks water apart
An artistic depiction of the WASP-18b exoplanet (Image source: NASA) NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has mapped the…
Our universe may have been born inside a black hole, study finds
The Big Bang theory has dominated our understanding of the universe’s origin for almost 100 years. It describes…
The most violent event in the universe could be visible from Earth in less than 10 years
The universe is a vast place in which many cosmic events occur regularly. And in less than ten…