A new, huge crater has been discovered on the Moon
ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An image showing the surface of the Moon. While the Moon is covered with…
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…
Astronomers confirm Einstein’s gravity by viewing light from behind a supermassive black hole
Astronomers detected delayed X-ray flashes consistent with light reflected from the far side of an accretion disk and…
The universe may contain a staggering 40 quintillion black holes
Astronomers estimate that about 40 quintillion stellar-mass black holes exist within the observable universe, a number written as…
‘Cosmic Glitch’ could explain why gravity acts differently across the Universe
Einstein’s theory of gravity may behave slightly differently across distances of billions of light-years, with gravity appearing about…
Cosmic plasma was supposed to rule out dark photons. Simulations say otherwise
A major limit on dark photon dark matter may be far weaker because early-universe plasma stops absorbing energy…
The Milky Way glows brightly in first-of-its-kind neutrino image
IceCube has produced the first neutrino image of the Milky Way, revealing high-energy particle activity concentrated along our…
Astronomers have observed a wandering black hole shredding a star
ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An illustration showing a star and a galaxy. Astronomers have recently detected a black…
NASA’s Juno spacecraft finds temperatures surging just below Io’s volcanic surface
NASA’s Juno spacecraft measured heat beneath Io’s surface for the first time, finding temperatures rise sharply within just…
A beam of light can cross the entire universe in no time at all
A photon can cross a billion light-years while accumulating no elapsed time along its path.Special relativity links space…
Inside the strange physics of why time stops at the speed of light
A clock aboard a fast-moving spacecraft does not break, lag or malfunction. It ticks normally for everyone inside.…
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stage will hit the Moon in the coming days
ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An image showing the Moon. In the coming days, the upper stage of a…