Space & Astronomy

Researchers used data from the Star Wars 'Galactic Republic' to prove that small, rocky planets are capable of keeping their atmospheres.

Scientists have created a 'severance' system that uses digital clones to read and discuss daily physics papers so humans don't have to.

Three stars orbiting in a perfect triangle can mimic the gravitational waves of a two-star collision, potentially fooling our detectors.

Scientists have synthesized a 'Universal Harmony' audio track by averaging out ripples from a million massive cosmic collisions.

Researchers used atmospheric modeling to prove that 'meatball rain' from children's fiction is physically possible on alien planets.

Physicists have shown that traversable 'shortcuts' through space-time could exist without needing the impossible forms of energy previously thought necessary.

Gas falling into a giant star-forming cloud behaves like it is hitting a 'slow zone,' decelerating as it gets closer to the center instead of speeding up.

Dead, spinning stars can be used as massive, naturally occurring radio antennas to catch ripples in the fabric of spacetime.

A 'runaway demolition derby' of colliding stars in the early universe may explain the mystery of how massive galaxies formed so quickly after the Big Bang.

The 'exotic' first stars in the universe might not have been created by massive hyper-explosions, but by normal ones that were simply messy and uneven.

The maximum weight a star can reach is governed by a universal mathematical pattern, making the limit more about geometry than the matter inside the star.

Stars can be slowly shredded by a black hole even if they never get close enough for its gravity to pull them apart directly.

New mathematical models suggest the existence of 'Mirror Stars'—cosmic objects that act like giant, perfectly reflecting spheres in space.

The 'empty' vacuum of space creates a hidden gravitational force that pulls objects together with extreme sensitivity to distance.

Jupiter's massive equatorial winds may be driven by waves created in a layer of falling 'helium rain' deep inside the planet.

A growing black hole develops a unique glowing ring that brightens and moves as it eats matter.

The brightest high-energy light from a famous black hole system actually comes from the 'backwards' jet pointing away from Earth.

A mathematical model of a simple moving mirror can perfectly mimic the way black holes leak radiation.

Nearly half of all known 'Hot Jupiter' planets are on a one-way trip to being swallowed by their host stars.

Astronomers have discovered a "Black Hole Star" with a light signature more extreme than any known star in the universe.

Astronomers have found massive stars forming in the "empty" outskirts of a galaxy, 100,000 light-years from its center.

A 'ghost' galaxy was found hiding right in the neighborhood of our closest galactic neighbor, Andromeda.

Dozens of massive warps in space-time were found hidden in plain sight because they were 'too bright' for AI to see.

Astronomers have finally explained how 'impossible' black holes 100 times larger than their host galaxies existed at the dawn of time.

A single cosmic explosion has been caught acting like two completely different types of star deaths simultaneously.

We might have been missing the very first stars in the universe just because we didn't think to tilt our antennas the right way.

A detector just found a black hole so incredibly small that it couldn't have come from a dying star.

We found a giant planet orbiting a star that’s nearly as old as the entire universe.

The dark matter zooming past Earth isn't some smooth cloud; it’s a messy leftover scrap from ancient galaxy crashes.

The whole universe might have performed a giant physics experiment on itself at the Big Bang, and the proof is written in the sky.

We found a 'clogged' star explosion that’s so full of junk it moves way slower than it’s supposed to.

When a star dies, it leaves a 'silent' gap in its gravitational waves that’s as unique as a fingerprint.

We finally have a way to tell if that thing in space is a black hole or a wormhole: just watch how it shreds a star.

Our math for weighing black holes when they crash into each other might be off by a massive 100%.

It looks like dark energy is actually getting stronger, which means it might eventually rip the entire universe to shreds.

Scientists just simulated what happens when a 'dead' star basically explodes back to life for a second round.

When giant black holes at the center of galaxies flare up, the whole galaxy actually looks like it's wobbling in the sky.

If the universe had a weird 'twist' to it, time could literally flow backward and physics would still work perfectly fine.

When two massive black holes get stuck near each other, they start making a literal low-frequency hum as they stir up the surrounding gas.

We found a 'Mega-Earth' that’s a total rebel—it orbits its star over the poles, top-to-bottom, instead of around the middle like our planets.

Black holes might not be the 'point of no return' traps we thought they were. New math suggests you might actually be able to get back out.

We found 'stars' that are so cold you could literally hold them in your hand—they're chillier than your morning latte.

We’re finally seeing moons around planets in other solar systems, and we’re even spotting the dust clouds where new ones are being born.

Some molecules in deep space are 'lefties' or 'righties,' and the weird part is they totally ignore the normal laws of heat and energy.

Those massive explosions from suns might actually be what jumpstarts life on alien planets, not what kills it.

We just spotted only the third object ever to wander into our solar system from another star. It’s a total cosmic tourist.

Cosmic rays have a trick for traveling through space—they basically go 'ghost' to skip right through magnetic fields.

There are these ancient 'fossil' zones in the middle of our galaxy that are basically assembly lines for crashing black holes into each other.

Someone found a few 'plus and minus' math errors in one of Stephen Hawking’s big papers on black holes. Even the GOATs mess up sometimes.

We finally figured out why Earth still has a magnetic field, and it all comes down to exactly when our tectonic plates started moving.