Stellar Death Releases Some of the Highest-Energy Light Ever Seen By Mara Johnson-Groh These bursts release more energy in a few seconds than the sun would produce in its lifetime.
This 'Blob' of Radiation Might Be a Long-Lost Neutron Star By Brandon Specktor In 1987, a star exploded, creating the brightest supernova to light up Earth's skies in 400 years. That star's corpse has been missing for 30 years. Now, researchers think they've found it.
Black Holes Grow Hair, Then Go Bald Again By Stephanie Pappas New calculations suggest that some black holes can grow hair, but they can't keep it for long. Alas, they go bald again.
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What If Space-Time Were 'Chunky'? It Would Forever Change the Nature of Reality. By Paul Sutter An ambitious new fleet of spacecraft could reveal whether space-time is smooth or chunky, and in doing so the ultimate nature of reality.
Neptune's Wobbling Moons Are Locked in a Never-Before-Seen Orbital Dance By Rafi Letzter Standing on one moon, you'd see the other pass overhead twice before ducking around to pass on the other side.
What's Inside a Black Hole? By Paul Sutter You're about to take a dip into the inky blackness of a giant black hole and see what's on the other side of that enigmatic event horizon. What will you find inside? Read on, brave explorer.
Physicists Just Created the Most Detailed Simulation of the Universe in History By Tim Childers An international team of scientists has created the most detailed large-scale model of the universe to date, a simulation they call TNG50.
Before We Find Aliens, Humans Need to Figure Ourselves Out, Anthropologist Says By Meghan Bartels Humans have questions about alien life. But those beings, if they exist, likely have some questions of their own about humans, queries we may want to answer before we find any life beyond Earth.
Mysterious Gravitational Wave Sparks Days-Long Hunt — But It Was Just a Glitch By Rafi Letzter This wasn't what anyone was hoping for.
Objective Reality Doesn't Exist, Quantum Experiment Shows By Alessandro Fedrizzi, Massimiliano Proietti A quantum experiment raises deeply philosophical questions about the fundamental nature of reality.
'Improbable Planet' Somehow Survives Being Swallowed by Red Giant Star By Chelsea Gohd Scientists have discovered a "survivalist" planet that shouldn't exist orbiting a pulsating star.
Tardigrade DNA Added to Human Cells Could Help Us Survive on Mars, Scientist Says By Chelsea Gohd Will we one day combine tardigrade DNA with our cells to go to Mars?
This Is How Light May Have Escaped from the Earliest Galaxies, Turning the Universe Transparent By Yasemin Saplakoglu An intervening cluster of galaxies acts like a cosmic microscope and bends and magnifies light from a distant galaxy.
Millions of Gargantuan Plasma ‘Spicules’ Might Be Spreading Heat Around the Sun’s Atmosphere By Brandon Specktor The sun's surface is covered by millions of enormous plasma jets known as spicules at any given moment. Now, researchers think they know why.
Star Ejected from Milky Way's 'Heart of Darkness' Reaches Mind-Blowing Speed By Chelsea Gohd As humankind's ancestors were learning to walk upright, a star was launched out of the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy at a staggering 3.7 million mph (6 million km/h).
There's a Mysterious Source of Oxygen in Mars' Atmosphere, and No One Can Explain It By Yasemin Saplakoglu There's something strange about the oxygen in the atmosphere above Mars' Gale Crater.
New, 'Hidden' State of Matter Coaxed into Being by Ultrafast Laser Flashes By Rafi Letzter Physicists think this might be the first of many hidden states of matter that could be uncovered using laser flashes.
