10 Dark Matter Facts That Will Surprise You
Dark matter is one of the biggest mysteries of modern science, because we can’t see it, touch it or feel it with our current instruments, and yet, we know it’s…
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Cosmos
This category presents the reader with astronomical events that can be seen each week, and month.
The Great Attractor: What Is Pulling the Milky Way Through Space?
The Milky Way is expanding away from distant galaxies with the rest of the universe, yet it also has a local motion of its own. Our galaxy, together with the…
This repeating space signal is coming from deep space — and no one knows why
The repeating space signal that astronomers have studied over the past decade arrives without warning. It lasts just milliseconds, yet the energy it releases can outshine entire stars. Unlike most…
Could Life on Earth Have Come From Space? What the Evidence Shows
Meteorites and samples returned from asteroids contain organic molecules used by life. That raises a fascinating question: did space supply some of the ingredients from which life began on Earth?…
China Releases Incredible Never-Before-Seen Images of the Far Side of the Moon
China’s Chang’e-4 lander and Yutu-2 rover are still returning new views from the far side of the Moon, offering close-up looks at a landscape that is both familiar and fundamentally…
Jupiter doesn’t orbit the center of the Sun and the strange reason why reveals how gravity really works
Jupiter doesn’t orbit the center of the Sun, and that’s not just a catchy headline—it’s a physics reality. The gas giant is so massive that the point it shares with…
Could the galactic zoo theory explain why aliens haven’t contacted us yet?
A hypothesis debated by researchers suggests advanced civilizations may be observing Earth while avoiding contact, reframing the long-running Fermi paradox as a problem of choice rather than distance. For more…
The Laniakea supercluster is the massive cosmic structure that holds our galaxy
The Laniakea supercluster is one of the most mind-bending structures ever charted in the observable universe. Stretching over 500 million light-years and containing more than 100,000 galaxies—including our own Milky…
Earth’s atmosphere reaches beyond the Moon, study finds
The boundary between Earth and space is usually taught as a clean line: cross it, and you are “in space.” New analyses of ultraviolet observations challenge that tidy picture by…
3D map of the Milky Way uncovers strange structure
The first true 3D map of the Milky Way is changing everything we thought we knew about our galaxy. What once looked like a flat spiral now appears warped, rippled,…
Stunning 4K video of the Moon
A new visualization turns years of Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mapping into a continuous, measured view of lunar terrain. NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio has produced a 4K video tour of the…