What If a Massive Star Died and No One Noticed?
What happens when a massive star dies — but doesn’t explode? We tend to picture stellar death as spectacular. A…
Astrophysics
Did LOFAR Just Draw the Most Detailed Map of the Universe?
Did LOFAR Just Draw the Most Detailed Map of the Universe? Have you ever looked up at a night sky…
Is Dark Energy Changing? What DESI DR2 Really Found
What if the invisible force pulling the universe apart is not a constant — but something alive, something that changes…
Why Did a Tiny Comet Reverse Its Spin Near the Sun?
What happens when a comet flies past the Sun, slows its spin to a dead stop, and then starts spinning…
Is Dark Matter Wrong? Clusters Are Twice as Heavy as We Thought
What if the invisible substance we’ve spent half a century searching for — dark matter — doesn’t exist the way…
Can Solar Smoke Rings Predict the Next Space Weather Storm?
What if the forces that can knock out power grids, crash satellites, and paint the sky with auroras are born…
Is CDG-2 the Darkest Galaxy Ever Found?
The low-surface-brightness galaxy CDG-2, shown in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, is dominated by dark matter and…
Can Ancient Magnetic Fields Solve the Hubble Tension?
An image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in July 2025 of Abell 209, a massive spacetime-warping cluster of galaxies…
Dark Matter: parametric resonance as a source of magnetic seeds
The universe is characterized by the presence of minute, highly uniform magnetic fields that permeate cosmic space and influence…
Why Did Star ASASSN-24fw Lose 97% of Its Light?
Artist impression of a brown dwarf much like ASASSN-24fw (Credit : NASA/JPL-Caltech) What would you think if a star that…