The Universe Is Expanding Too Fast and Scientists Can’t Explain Why
Artist’s interpretation of the cosmic distance ladder — a succession of overlapping methods used to measure distances across…
Aquila Booster turns a weak pulsar into a powerhouse of PeV particles
High above Earth, in the thin air of the Tibetan Plateau, a giant observatory has caught the universe…
Largest 3D Map of the Universe Is Adding Serious Fuel to the Cosmology Crisis
Last week, the Dark Energy Spectroscopy Instrument (DESI) concluded its first official survey. Over the past five years,…
Most Close Pairs of Stars Are Born as Cosmic Twins
An artist’s rendition of pair of twin stars being born in the HOPS-312 system in Orion. Credit: NSF/AUI/NSF…
The Most Elusive Number in Physics Just Got Even More Mysterious
After years of careful measurement, a physicist uncovers a result that doesn’t quite align with previous findings, deepening…
The Most Powerful Neutrino Ever Detected May Have a Surprising Cosmic Source
This artist’s conception shows a blazar – the core of an active galaxy powered by a supermassive black…
Monster Storms on Jupiter Unleash Lightning Beyond Anything on Earth
Scientists analyzing data from NASA’s Juno spacecraft have uncovered evidence that lightning on Jupiter can be vastly more…
Mississippi State physicist creates neutron star reaction in the lab
For years, physicists have wondered whether one unstable form of copper might act like a traffic jam inside…
NASA’s Hubble Dazzles With Young Stars in Trifid Nebula
This shimmering region of star-formation, a close-up of the Trifid Nebula about 5,000 light-years from Earth, was captured…
Undergraduate students built a cavity detector to search for axion dark matter
Dark matter is supposed to be everywhere, threaded through the Milky Way and outnumbering ordinary matter by a…
Mysterious ‘Red Dot’ Galaxies Could Have ‘Relic’ Black Holes Predating the Big Bang
What was going on before the Big Bang? (Anything interesting?) Well, one astrophysicist now proposes that the mysterious…
Not Even the Largest Cosmic Objects Can Escape Newton and Einstein, Study Finds
Gravity is so weird that it essentially forces cosmologists into subscribing to one of two equally radical conclusions:…