Space
Ancient Alien Comet Gets Close-Up from Mars Orbiters
Thirty million kilometers sounds like a vast distance, but in cosmic terms, it was practically a front-row seat.
Oct 9, 2025
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Space
Dust-Cloaked Star Solves Supernova Mystery
Astronomers have spent decades scratching their heads over a cosmic puzzle: massive red supergiant stars should explode all the time, yet we rarely see them do it.
Oct 8, 2025
Space
Astronomers Find Giant Wave Rippling Through the Milky Way
The Milky Way has been caught in the act of making waves. Using data from the European Space Agency's Gaia telescope, astronomers have discovered a massive…
Sep 30, 2025
Space
Fly Through the First 3D Map Revealing Hidden Star Factories
For the first time, astronomers have penetrated the cosmic dust veils shrouding stellar nurseries to create the most accurate three-dimensional map of star-forming regions within our galaxy.
Sep 17, 2025
Space
Cosmic Explosion Defies Rules of the Universe
The brightest explosions in space are supposed to be one-time events. This one went off again and again.
Sep 9, 2025
Space
A Cosmic Newborn Emerges in a Disk of Dust and Light
High in the Chilean desert, one of Earth’s most powerful telescopes has captured the birth of a world.
Aug 26, 2025
Space
Hubble Captures Ultra-Fast Interstellar Comet Racing Through Solar System at Record Speed
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured the clearest images yet of a rare interstellar visitor speeding through our solar system at an unprecedented 210,000 kilometers per hour, making it the fastest object ever recorded in our cosmic neighborhood.
Aug 7, 2025
Space
Scientists Spot Planet in the Making Sculpting Its Star’s Disc
For the first time, astronomers may have caught a planet forming in real time, watching as it sculpts the swirling gas and dust around its young host star.
Jul 21, 2025
Space
Astronomers Catch a Solar System Being Born — for the First Time Ever
Scientists have witnessed the earliest stages of planet formation ever observed, watching hot minerals crystallize into solid particles around a baby star 1,300 light-years away.
Jul 16, 2025
Space
Planet Forces Its Star to Attack It With Solar Flares
A young planet is literally making its star angry. Astronomers have discovered that HIP 67522 b, a gas giant orbiting dangerously close to its…
Jul 7, 2025
Space
Star’s Double Death Captured in Stunning Image
A stellar detective story hundreds of years in the making has finally reached its conclusion.
Jul 2, 2025
Space
Asteroid Has 4% Chance of Hitting Moon in 2032
A 60-meter asteroid discovered late last year has astronomers on edge—not because it threatens Earth, but because it might crash into the Moon.
Jun 27, 2025
Space
Space Radar Sees Through Amazon Canopy to Map Earth’s Carbon
Two months after launch, Europe’s Biomass satellite has returned its first images—and they’re already revealing hidden secrets beneath some of the world’s most impenetrable forests.
Jun 23, 2025
Space
Flyeye Telescope Opens Eye to Hunt Dangerous Asteroids
Europe’s newest guardian against cosmic threats has begun its watch. The European Space Agency’s Flyeye telescope achieved “first light” in late May, marking a…
Jun 5, 2025