“Like Nothing Anyone Has Ever Seen Before” – Bizarre Supernova Stuns Scientists
For the first time, astronomers have seen the inner layers of a star revealed in its final moments.…
Physicists Predict a Black Hole Could Explode This Decade
Physicists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have challenged long-held assumptions about black holes and now estimate up…
Astrophysicists Zero In on Source of Strange Gamma-Ray Signals
Artist’s impression of a MSP binary system. Credit: ESA & Francesco Ferraro (Bologna Astronomical Observatory) Millisecond pulsar binaries…
NASA’s Webb Observes Immense Stellar Jet on Outskirts of Our Milky Way
A blowtorch of seething gasses erupting from a volcanically growing monster star has been captured by NASA’s James…
Dark Matter “Wind” May Finally Be Detectable With New Superconducting Tech
Using the improved superconducting nanowire single-photon detector (SNSPD), researchers are searching for very light dark matter. Credit: UZH…
Physicists see heat move as a wave after 90 years of theory
Physicists at MIT have achieved a major feat, capturing a bizarre quantum effect called second sound on film,…
NASA Webb Looks at Earth-Sized, Habitable-Zone Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 e
Scientists are in the midst of observing the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 e with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Careful…
Webb Telescope Spots a “Blob” Near a Star, but Is It a Planet?
Artist’s depiction of the Epsilon Eridani system, including the elusive planet Epsilon Eridani b. Credit: NASA/SOFIA/Lynette Cook JWST…
These Strange Stars Could Reveal the True Nature of Dark Matter
A newly proposed type of stellar object, called a dark dwarf, may be hiding in the heart of…
Caltech Physicists Discover “Double Helix,” a New Equilibrium State of Cosmic Plasma
The double helix nebula. The spots are infrared-luminous stars, mostly red giants and red supergiants. Many other stars…
The observable universe is just 5% of reality, 95% remains invisible!
Ordinary matter, also called baryonic matter, consists of protons, neutrons, and electrons. This is the material that emits…
Glittering Glimpse of Star Birth From NASA’s Webb Telescope
This is a sparkling scene of star birth captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. What appears to…