Black holes could work as natural particle colliders to hunt for dark matter, scientists say
Supermassive black holes could act as natural particle accelerators, helping humanity investigate dark matter.
When the sun dies, could life survive on the Jupiter ocean moon Europa?
New research suggests there may be a narrow window of possibility for life to persist on the icy moons of the outer solar system.
AI could solve puzzles posed by twin stars in ‘mere minutes or seconds on a single laptop’
A newly designed, AI-powered program could solve the puzzle of binary stars in mere seconds using a common laptop, a process that currently takes supercomputer clusters weeks.
What’s at the center of Mars? Maybe the stench of rotten eggs
Mars' core formed within just a few million years, scientists say compared to the hundreds of millions or even billions of years that it took for Earth's core to form — it also might smell like rotten eggs.
Private Japanese spacecraft aims to land in the moon’s ‘Sea of Cold’ this week
Tokyo-based company ispace aims to land its "Resilience" spacecraft in the moon's Mare Frigoris ("Sea of Cold") region on June 5, notching a big milestone for Japan and for commercial spaceflight.
The Milky Way may not collide with neighboring galaxy Andromeda after all: ‘From near-certainty to a coin flip’
A collision between the Milky Way and neighboring galaxy Andromeda is far from a sure thing; in fact, it could hinge on the flip of a cosmic coin.
Turning the Red Planet green? It’s time to take terraforming Mars seriously, scientists say
A new study debates the complex ethical questions that must be considered if we're to terraform Mars and lays the blueprint for a potential path forward.
Super-magnetic dead star throws a violent temper tantrum as NASA X-ray spacecraft looks on
NASA's X-ray space telescope IXPE has made the first observation of polarized light emerging from an outbursting magnetar, neutron stars that possess the universe's strongest magnetic fields.
‘Cosmic miracle!’ James Webb Space Telescope discovers the earliest galaxy ever seen
The James Webb Space Telescope has done it again, discovering the "mother of all early galaxies," a record-breaking distant object that existed just 280 billion years after the Big Bang.
Scientists found a possible new dwarf planet — it could spell bad news for Planet 9 fans
A newly found object could be a dwarf planet that contradicts the Planet Nine hypothesis.