One of the brightest stars in the Andromeda galaxy quietly collapsed into a black hole without any of the fanfare of a spectacular supernova. What makes this startling discovery even more…
It may still be possible to understand what happened, even when our science reaches its limit. The evidence for the Big Bang is overwhelming, yet we cannot truly describe what happens in …
What are we missing? The Hubble tension is one of the most hotly debated discrepancies in all of astronomy. It centers around a number called the Hubble constant, which is functionally th…
This suggests humans didn’t originate on Earth — we came from space. More of the ingredients for life have been found in meteorites. Space rocks that fell to Earth within the last cen…
While it’s easy to think scientific professionals would try to disprove the claims of religious beliefs, a Harvard scientist has claimed that a mathematical formula could actually prove t…
The exoplanet WASP-127b is an unusual world. It is about 30% larger than Jupiter but has just a fifth of Jupiter's mass. It is an example of a super-puff planet because of its extremely…
A record-breaking gravitational wave signal let scientists "listen" to a distant black hole merger and put Einstein's gravity to its toughest test yet. An animation of two b…