Space

A large chunk of burning detritus discovered in the Pilbara desert of Western Australia appears to be space junk that reentered Earth’s atmosphere, the Western Australia Police Force has announced. Mine workers alerted emergency services after discovering the mystery object on October 18 on a remote access road about 30 kilometers (around 18 miles) from […]

Earth was a broiling mass of lava and rock before it took the form that it has today, and scientists have for the first time discovered traces of that very early ‘proto Earth’, hidden away in the deepest and oldest rocks on our planet. The clues have survived some 4.5 billion years, so it’s an astonishing find. The

Finding Earth-like planets is nearly impossible because stars drown them out in brightness. Conventional telescope designs fall short, but a proposed rectangular infrared telescope could solve this. It might reveal dozens of promising worlds within 30 light-years, paving the way to spotting signs of life. Origins of Life and Water’s Role Earth is the only

Revealing the Final Moments of a Star: New Insights into the Supernova Cassiopeia A On September 6, 2025, LiveScience published an attention-grabbing report: scientists studying the famous supernova remnant Cassiopeia A (Cas A) have unearthed surprising details about how the star died — details that challenge long-standing assumptions about how massive stars explode. Live Science

A chance configuration of objects arrayed across deep space has just revealed the hiding place of a giant glob of dark matter. Configurations like these, known as Einstein crosses, typically consist of four distinct points of light. This particular example, named HerS-3, has a feature never seen before. At the center of the cross appears a fifth

A black hole 1 billion times the Sun’s mass sits at the center of this galactic web. Key Takeaways _________ A Cosmic Web Ensnaring Six Galaxies Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have discovered six galaxies clustered around a supermassive black hole in the early universe. These galaxies, collectively known as

A new discovery has just brought the total number of Uranus’s known moons to 29. In the space close to the icy planet, outside its ephemeral rings, JWST snapped a tiny object that no one had ever seen before, not even in data from the Voyager 2 probe that flew past Uranus at a close distance in 1986.

Too much cosmic radiation can sterilize a planet – but a surprising new study has found that under the right circumstances, it could actually make uninhabitable worlds habitable. Ionizing radiation has enough energy to damage the organic compounds that are fundamental to biology, which for organisms like us can lead to health problems like cancer. Not

A new analysis of decades’ worth of observations has revealed that Uranus does indeed emit more heat than it receives from the rays of the Sun. This conclusion, arrived at by two independent teams of scientists, finally resolves a puzzle that first emerged when Voyager 2 cruised past the stinky planet all the way back in 1986. Those observations