Space & Astronomy

Astronomers found hot steam around a massive, scorching star where it’s way too hot for water molecules to even exist.

Black holes might have 'hair' that lets them feel and remember how the entire universe is expanding.

When two dead stars smash into each other, they can trigger a massive helium explosion that blasts out a ghost-like flood of particles.

We just found 200 black holes that are way too fat—they weigh 100 times more than they should compared to the galaxies they live in.

The oldest light we can see suggests the entire universe is actually lopsided and tilting toward one specific corner of the sky.

We just caught two black holes merging in a messy, wobbling orbit, proving they aren't always the perfect, tidy pairs we expected.

Alien 'ocean worlds' probably deal with the same gross stuff we do—like massive bacterial blooms and viral outbreaks in their seas.

Those weird signals from space might just be tiny black holes spontaneously flipping inside out into 'white holes' and blowing up.

The cracks on the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus are basically a map of the giant, secret ocean hidden miles beneath the ice.

Scientists used earthquake sensors to track a meteor as it zipped across the Alaskan sky in broad daylight.

Giant planets use their magnetic fields like giant vacuum cleaners to keep their moons from ever growing rings.

Bad news: the odds of our galaxy smashing into Andromeda just jumped back up to 90%.

Astronomers finally figured out why this one super bright star you can see with your naked eye is blasting out high-energy X-rays.

The 'dust' between stars that we use to measure distance might actually be an optical illusion caused by how light bounces around.

Scientists are hunting for massive ripples in space by watching for tiny, synchronized 'wobbles' in thousands of distant galaxies.

The faint 'ghost light' from lost, orphaned stars is actually a perfect map for the invisible blobs of dark matter holding the universe together.

We just found a complex building block of life surviving inside the 'delivery rooms' of massive stars, where it's way too hot for anything to last.

We just spotted the third comet ever to visit our solar system from another star.

Dark energy might not be some mysterious force; it could just be a byproduct of gravity pulling the very first galaxies together.

Almost all the 'missing' dark matter in the universe could just be ancient black holes hiding in massive, invisible clusters.

Some huge space objects might not have an 'event horizon' and could actually push stuff away instead of sucking it in.

Astronomers might be mistaking 'naked' singularities for black holes because they look almost identical to our telescopes.

The James Webb telescope probably just spotted the very first stars ever made, born purely from Big Bang gas.

A weird kind of 'atomic' dark matter might be acting like a gravitational shield for tiny galaxies.

We found mysterious flashes in old sky photos taken years before the first satellite ever launched.

We found an object from another solar system that’s chemically nothing like anything we’ve ever seen in our own backyard.

A single mystery object in space was caught firing off 17,000 massive radio bursts in just one year.

There's a massive, invisible shockwave screaming through the edge of our galaxy at over 1.5 million miles per hour.

Starlight is literally crushing gas clouds into brand new stars inside the Pillars of Creation.

New evidence suggests Earth didn't actually form from 'space pebbles' like we've all been told.

A dead star in our own galaxy was caught spitting out the same mystery radio bursts we usually see from deep space.

Astronomers found another 'Odd Radio Circle'—it's a massive mystery ring of energy millions of light-years wide.

Those 'Little Red Dots' in the early universe might be monster 'quasi-stars' powered by black holes on the inside.

The moons of Jupiter and Uranus are likely 'replacements' because the first ones were destroyed when the planets moved.

We’ve been underestimating the volcanic power of Jupiter’s moon Io by about ten times.

Astronomers caught a 'sonogram' of a giant planet that’s still growing inside its mother star’s dust cloud.

Friction from dark matter got so hot in the early universe that it actually stopped the very first stars from being born.

That planet we thought we found around a bright star? Total ghost story. The world's best space telescope just proved it doesn't exist.

Astronomers found two dead stars orbiting each other so fast that a whole 'year' goes by in just 27 minutes.

That 'alien' signal we found on a distant water-world might just be a boring cloud of gas we misidentified.

When planets smash into each other, they don't splash like liquid—they crunch together like giant, solid rocks.

There might be a hidden 'dark dimension' about the width of a hair that's actually driving the expansion of the universe.

We're using black hole collisions as giant, cosmic laboratories to figure out how nuclear reactions work inside stars.

Astronomers found a giant ring of dust spinning around two stars in the completely wrong direction.

We can now sniff out forests on other planets even if they’re hidden behind a thick blanket of clouds.

We just got a front-row seat to a black hole shredding and eating a star, and it's the second closest one we've ever seen.

Those galaxies orbiting the Milky Way are all lined up in a weird, flat way because of a massive ancient crash.

We found a wild star in deep space that acts like it has a double engine, blasting radio signals from two different spots at once.

Venus might be hiding an entire Earth's worth of ocean water deep under its surface.

We might owe our lives to massive solar storms from the baby Sun that warmed up Earth just enough for life to kick off.