Earth's magnetic field dramatically flipped a little more than 40,000 years ago. We can now experience this epic upheaval, thanks to a clever interpretation of information collected by …
Our Solar System was recently introduced to the first interstellar object in late October 2017. The object, called 'Oumuamua (a Hawaiian word for messenger), has caught the attention …
A mystery signal from the depths of the cosmos has just been caught doing something we've never seen before. In the midst of the emission of a repeating fast radio burst, scientists…
Astronomers say they have detected "strange signals" coming from the direction of a small, dim star located about 11 light-years from Earth. Researchers picked up the mysterio…
Scientists find that bursts of gamma rays may exceed the speed of light and cause time-reversibility. An artist's drawing of a particle jet emanating from a black hole at the center o…
Two new papers say everything we knew about black holes was wrong. Black holes are undoubtedly weird enough to imagine but two recent papers say we don’t understand how they work at all…
A paper in the journal Physical Review Letters claims to prove that a “kugelblitz” is not possible. Black holes are perhaps the best-known of the exotic cosmic citizens. Even the recipe…