Space & Astronomy

Saturn’s iconic rings aren't just there—they’re the mangled remains of a lost moon we named Chrysalis.

Astronomers finally used the 'fingerprints' of oxygen and neon to figure out exactly how heavy and big a neutron star is.

New gravity models say the universe is getting more lopsided over time, which kind of breaks a big rule in space science.

We’re sending a tiny telescope—only 12 centimeters wide—into space to hunt for Earth-like planets next door.

The spin of the very first black holes was probably decided by tiny quantum jitters during the first seconds of the Big Bang.

There's a massive star nursery out there blasting 'fingers' of gas into space like a giant cosmic firework show.

The James Webb telescope just got a detailed 'light fingerprint' of a single massive spot on a star far, far away.

A tiny pulsar with hardly any power is somehow blasting out gamma rays just as strong as the big ones, which totally breaks our physics models.

We used to think long cosmic explosions only came from dying stars, but some are actually from black holes smashing together.

Those mysterious, insanely bright radio flashes from deep space? They might just be normal signals that got a massive boost from a star’s gravity.

The dark matter surrounding galaxies might be the exact 'glue' needed to prop open a wormhole you could actually travel through.

We used to think giant galaxy car crashes killed off star-making, but it turns out that’s not what’s actually pulling the plug.

Black holes have this weird 'fuzz' that lets them remember everything that’s ever fallen in, long after the object is gone.

Exploding stars aren't the reason galaxies stop making new stars—it's actually just because the whole galaxy is spinning too fast.

We finally found a 'dead' pair of stars that explains why thousands of star couples we expected to see in the sky are just missing.

There’s a star that blew up 125 years ago that’s still glowing because the gas is basically taking its sweet time 'forgetting' the explosion.

A new map of baby solar systems shows that almost every single one of them is warped or 'broken' instead of being a nice, flat disk.

Our solar system isn't flying through space like a comet; it's actually wrapped in a bubble shaped like a giant, split croissant.

We found four alien worlds where it literally rains microscopic sand from high-altitude clouds.

The math behind the Big Bang only really works if you assume some particles actually weigh less than zero.

A new AI can take a blurry photo from a basic telescope and figure out exactly what it would look like if a billion-dollar space telescope took it.

We found a way to spot aliens without needing to know what they look like or what they’re made of—we just look for signs of complexity.

Those weird "blueberries" all over Mars are all the exact same size because they literally can't grow any bigger than the dust in the air.

A tiny neighbor galaxy is actually bending the Milky Way and leaving behind "ghost" trails of stars that we used to think were ancient relics.

There’s a "zombie star" left over from an explosion in the year 1181 that’s still hauling ass through space at 10,000 miles per second.

That bright star in the Southern Cross? It’s not one star. It’s actually a crazy family of seven stars all huddling together.

The universe might not actually be speeding up—gravity might just be messing with our perspective and making it look that way.

Massive galaxy clusters are acting like giant magnifying glasses, making things from the early universe look 8 times bigger than they actually are.

When a black hole’s jets turn off, they collapse like bubbles and basically camouflage the black hole so we can't find it.

We just caught the "cosmic web" literally hand-feeding gas to tiny galaxies to spark massive star-making parties.

If Mars was orbiting our neighbor star, its entire atmosphere would be gone in just 10 million years—poof.

The Webb telescope found a massive "ring" galaxy from 12 billion years ago that likely formed after a brutal head-on cosmic car crash.

The dwarf planet Haumea isn't actually shaped like a smooth egg—it’s got a weird, "pinched" look to it.

A massive shockwave in space is rolling up galaxy gas into giant "smoke rings" that are hundreds of thousands of light-years wide.

Scientists are using a network of spinning stars to create a telescope the size of a galaxy to solve the universe's biggest mysteries.

We caught supermassive black holes blowing organic "smoke" out of galaxies like they’re giant cosmic tailpipes.

There’s a sonic boom happening in space that’s four times faster than the speed of sound, all because two galaxy clusters slammed into each other.