Space & Astronomy

Some of the heaviest, densest objects in the universe might have popped into existence at the very start of time, way before the first star was even born.

The universe isn't as bright as we thought, which means we’ve been totally miscounting the light from about a trillion different stars.

If you get close enough to a massive gravity source, the basic laws of 'maybe' and 'likely' actually change their physical shape.

Those mysterious 'little red dots' in space photos aren't solid planets or stars—they’re actually just massive, glowing clouds of gas.

A single hole in the ground can act like an engine that gets hot enough to physically spin an entire asteroid through space.

A giant galaxy is acting like a massive funhouse mirror, letting us see the exact same exploding star in five different places at once.

There's a galaxy out there literally blowing 'smoke' into the void, and that smoke is actually cooling down to form brand-new stars.

It turns out our galaxy isn't being dragged across space by some invisible 'dark' ghost—we're just being pulled toward a massive neighborhood structure we finally found.

Astronomers found a 'baby' galaxy that was born with everything it needed to thrive, but for some reason, it's already stone-cold dead.

One of the most famous 'bombs' in the night sky isn't exploding for the reason we thought; it's actually doing something much weirder.

Newborn stars are getting absolutely hammered by radiation much earlier and much harder than we ever thought possible.

There’s a "no-fly zone" in outer space where black holes of a certain size just aren't allowed to exist.

Distant planets are missing some key chemicals, which means their insides are hundreds of degrees hotter than we thought was possible.

Black holes make a special kind of "quantum glue" that you won't find anywhere else in the universe.

We found a galaxy from 8 billion years ago that looks just like ours, which totally ruins our theory on how galaxies were built back then.

A dead star just let out a massive flash of heat that makes zero sense based on everything else we know about them.

A giant black hole in a far-off galaxy is acting so weird that it’s basically breaking every rule in the book.

Those weird lights in space photos from the 50s happen at the exact same time we were testing nuclear bombs back on Earth.

If a wormhole ever collapsed, it would send a massive shockwave through space-time that would ripple through everything.

The Sun is basically a giant machine that takes invisible dark matter and makes it glow with gamma rays.

Some wormholes could actually survive the end of the universe and pop out on the other side of the next Big Bang.

Astronomers just found helium in a supernova that—by definition—is supposed to have absolutely zero helium in it.

We just caught a black hole shooting matter out in two different directions at the exact same time.

Tiny black holes from the very beginning of time could be the reason why we can't find 100% of the universe's missing dark matter.

On hellish 'lava planets,' the oceans are moving at 220 mph because of supersonic winds, but they’re surprisingly bad at moving heat around.

There’s this weird, identical gamma-ray hum coming from three different galaxies, and it might finally be the proof of dark matter we've been looking for.

Some space rocks have rings that orbit at a weird tilt instead of around the middle, held there by the gravity of their own moons.

Astronomers just saw light moving nearly four times faster than its own 'universal speed limit' inside a distant nebula.

A new simulation of the start of everything shows the universe didn't start with a 'bang,' but instead 'bounced' into existence from a previous era.

New math for zooming into space simulations creates galaxies that look exactly right without needing any 'invisible' dark matter.

If the universe has a 'minimum pixel size,' it would actually make gravity a little weaker at bending light.

Using the physical traits of cats to initialize AI models works better than using standard math.

Massive orbiting AI data centers could soon appear in the sky 100 times brighter than the brightest stars.

A powerful radio source has been discovered that is completely invisible to the James Webb Space Telescope.

Astronomers suggest using 1930s pulp science fiction stories to identify the most likely locations for alien life.

Astronomers propose searching for alien planets by looking for 'vampire-repellent' chemicals in their atmospheres.

Scientists have confirmed that it literally rains liquid helium deep inside the planet Saturn.

Researchers have calculated the 'Flavor Zone'—the exact distance from a star where starlight would cook a frozen pizza perfectly.

Some galaxies possess 'mufflers' that can completely swallow the energy of an exploding star.

The songs of common birds like the Northern Cardinal are mathematically identical to the signals of colliding black holes.

Scientists suggest using a pond of Mexican Burrowing Toads as a cheap alternative to multi-billion dollar gravitational wave detectors.

A new 'Cow-culation' warns that falling satellite debris poses a growing risk to livestock in New Zealand.

Astronomers claim the universe has a mysterious mathematical preference for prime numbers when forming galaxy clusters.

Astronomers have proposed a new cryptocurrency called 'GalaxyCoin' that pays researchers for discovering new galaxies.

A new proof suggests the entire universe only requires one single fundamental constant to be completely described.

The Milky Way is evolving so quickly that its core properties are changing within a single human lifetime.

Bananas could be used as a natural source of antimatter fuel for interstellar spaceships.

A new naming system gives every tiny patch of the night sky a unique, three-word address.

New simulations show that the fabric of space-time can become turbulent, churning and swirling exactly like a chaotic liquid.

Astronomers have detected the chemical signatures of THC and CBD in the atmosphere of a distant 'sub-Neptune' planet.