Scientists Discover a Black Hole–Neutron Star Collision With a Strange Orbit Astronomers have discovered a surprising cosmic event that is forcing scientists to rethink how…
Black Holes Collided — And Satellites Saw a Flash Seconds Later
Astronomers Detect a 100-Solar-Mass Black Hole Merger That May Have Produced Light Astronomers have observed one of the most intriguing cosmic events in recent years:…
The Milky Way Is Floating Inside a Giant “Dark Matter Pancake”
Astronomers Discover the Milky Way Is Floating Inside a Giant “Pancake” of Dark Matter For decades, astronomers have been trying to understand a strange behavior…
A Supercomputer Just Destroyed a 50-Year-Old Theory About Stars
Supercomputer Simulations Reveal a New Secret About How Stars Rotate For decades, astronomers believed they understood how stars spin as they age. The idea seemed…
Why Russia Won’t Send People With Tattoos Into Space
Why People With Tattoos Rarely Become Cosmonauts in Russia Becoming a space traveler is one of the most challenging careers in the world. Astronauts and…
Scientists Discover Four New Worlds Just 10 Light-Years From Earth
Astronomers Discover Four Planets Orbiting a Nearby Star — One Could Potentially Support Life Astronomers have discovered an intriguing planetary system around one of the…
Astronomers Just Witnessed the Birth of One of the Most Dangerous Objects in the Universe
Scientists Witness the Birth of a Magnetar, Solving the Mystery of the Universe’s Brightest Explosions Astronomers have captured something extraordinary for the first time in…
Scientists Just Discovered a Black Hole and Neutron Star Orbiting the “Wrong Way” Before Their …
Scientists Just Discovered a Black Hole and Neutron Star Orbiting the “Wrong Way” Before Their Final Collision Scientists Just Discovered a Black Hole and Neutron…
“Terraforming Mars Is an Industrial Nightmare”
For decades, scientists, engineers, and science fiction writers have dreamed of transforming Mars into a second Earth. The concept, known as terraforming, imagines turning the…