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1st supernovas may have flooded the early universe with water — making life possible just 100 million years after the Big Bang
By Harry Baker published
A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that may have sparked extraterrestrial life in the very first galaxies.

Hubble telescope spots 'blue lurker' star feeding off of its conjoined siblings
By Jenna Ahart published
A rare breed of star recently discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope spins faster by feeding on its stellar siblings.

Comet C/2024 G3 ATLAS' 'near-death encounter' with the sun may have blown it apart, new photos suggest
By Harry Baker published
New photos of comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) suggest that it could be disintegrating due to "thermal stress" from its recent slingshot around the sun. However, its fate is still unclear.

'Marsquakes' may solve 50-year-old mystery about the Red Planet
By Harry Baker published
Data collected by NASA's InSight lander suggest that ancient internal processes are responsible for the "Martian dichotomy" that splits the Red Planet into two distinct halves.

'Herculean' 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic shows our closest galactic neighbor like never before — and took more than a decade to create
By Harry Baker published
The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with more than 200 million individually resolved stars.

'Our model of cosmology might be broken': New study reveals the universe is expanding too fast for physics to explain
By Ben Turner published
Astronomers have been confounded by recent evidence that the universe expanded at different rates throughout its life. New findings risk turning the tension into a crisis, scientists say.

Astronomers find hundreds of 'hidden' black holes — and there may be billions or even trillions more
By Joanna Thompson published
Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the very first time.

Space photo of the week: Look into Titan's 'eye,' 20 years after the Huygens spacecraft's historic landing on Saturn's largest moon
By Shreejaya Karantha published
Twenty years ago, the Huygens probe achieved humanity's first landing on a moon in the outer solar system when it touched down on Titan.

An interstellar visitor may have changed the course of 4 solar system planets, study suggests
By Abha Jain published
An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar system's planets onto a different course.
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