Cosmic dust particles that give birth to planets around young stars have for the first time been found forming — the James Webb Space Telescope has witnessed the creation of these tiny planetary building blocks around a dead star.
“This discovery is a big step forward in understanding how the basic materials of planets come together,” Mikako Matsuura of Cardiff University, who led…
Warped spacetime with surprise 'double-zoom' reveals radiation around distant supermassive black hole
August 28, 2025
Thanks to a theory put forward by Albert Einstein over 100 years ago and a happy coincidence, astronomers have discovered radiation being pumped out from the core of a quasar — within which a supermassive black hole lurks.
The team, led by Matus Rybak of Leiden University…
That mysterious 'Wow! signal' from space? Scientists may finally know where it came from — and it's probably not aliens
August 28, 2025
For researchers seeking answers to the question of whether we are alone in the universe, one event nearly half a century ago lingers even today — the so-called “Wow! Signal” detected back in 1977.
That strong, baffling radio episode was captured by Ohio State…
Starship Mars rocket met 'every major objective' on epic Flight 10 test launch, SpaceX says
August 28, 2025
The Starship megarocket passed its latest launch trial with flying colors, according to SpaceX.
Starship, the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built, launched from SpaceX’s Starbase site in South Texas at 7:30 p.m. EDT (2330 GMT) on Tuesday (Aug. 26), kicking off the vehicle’s 10th-ever test mission.
Flight 10 was eventful and ambitious. Starship met the challenge, “taking a…
SpaceX shared stunning photos of its Falcon 9 rocket carrying the U.S. Space Force’s secretive X-37B space plane into orbit last week.
The pictures capture the nighttime launch on Aug. 21, when the robotic X-37B, also known as the Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV), lifted off…
James Webb Space Telescope takes 1st look at interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS with unexpected results
August 27, 2025
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has observed the interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS for the first time. The powerful space telescope trained its infrared vision and its Near-Infrared Spectrograph instrument (NIRspec) on the comet on Aug. 6, 2025.
Discovered on July 1 by the…
World's most powerful solar telescope sees incredible coronal loops on the sun (image)
August 27, 2025
The smallest magnetic loops ever seen in the sun’s corona — imaged for the first time by the National Science Foundation’s Daniel F. Inouye Solar Telescope — could be the bottom floor of the machinery that powers the ferocious flares that routinely blast out from our star.
“It’s a landmark moment in solar science,” said Cole Tamburri of the University of Colorado…
A glowing hand stretches across the cosmos, with its palm and fingers sculpted from the wreckage of a massive stellar explosion.
The eerie structure is part of the nebula MSH 15-52, powered by pulsar B1509-58 — a rapidly spinning neutron star that is only about 12 miles…
On Aug. 2, 2027, a total solar eclipse will cast its shadow from the Strait of Gibraltar through North Africa and into the heart of the Arabian Peninsula. During the eclipse, the sun’s disk will be completely covered from our perspective on Earth for a maximum of 6…
New research suggests that dark matter could gather over vast periods of time at the heart of Jupiter-sized planets, creating black holes that eat these worlds from within. This striking concept may mean extrasolar planets, or “exoplanets,” could be used to study the mystery of dark matter.
In this new model, superheavy dark matter particles could be trapped by exoplanets, losing…
