Scientists may have finally detected dark matter through gamma ray signals from the Milky Way's center, using 15 years of Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope data. The signal's energy spectrum suggests particles with mass about 500...
Astronomers have discovered a 'dark comet'—a near-Earth object that was previously classified as an asteroid but exhibits comet-like behavior through tiny, measurable orbital changes caused by extremely weak outgassing of gas, which produces a gentle...
This video presents a size comparison visualization of circumbinary planets, which are planets that orbit around two stars rather than a single star. The content includes the possibility that some of these circumbinary planets might...
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson warned in spring 2025 that Betelgeuse, a red supergiant star 642 light-years away in Orion, is at an advanced point in its life cycle and may soon explode as a supernova....
The James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed that Pluto, a dwarf planet four billion miles from the Sun, is actively cooling itself through a unique atmospheric process where hydrocarbon haze particles absorb sunlight and radiate...
Astronomers have discovered that some objects previously classified as asteroids are actually 'dark comets'—rare celestial bodies that release tiny amounts of gas, producing a gentle thrust that subtly changes their orbits without forming visible tails,...
Mars preserves a 3.9-billion-year-old geological record of ancient asteroid impacts that Earth lost due to plate tectonics, making it a unique window into the early solar system's violent history; the Perseverance rover discovered the Broom...
Every object in the universe eventually dies through different mechanisms: comets dissolve within 100,000-200,000 years as solar radiation boils away their ice; asteroids and moons are destroyed by tidal forces or impacts; planets lose their...
The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered compact red sources in the early universe that may not be ordinary galaxies but could be 'quasistars'—black holes buried inside massive gaseous envelopes that trap and reprocess radiation,...
The James Webb Space Telescope confirmed that Pluto's atmospheric haze particles act as a radiator rather than a blanket, actively cooling the dwarf planet's atmosphere by absorbing sunlight and radiating heat back into space, making...
Fireballs (bolides) are bright meteoroids that enter Earth's atmosphere at high speeds, creating ionized metallic vapor trails called 'persistent trains' that can last for minutes instead of seconds; these events can be detected through multiple...
GPS monitoring data showing ground uplift indicates magma accumulation beneath the surface, and continued uplift combined with decreasing earthquake activity suggests an eruption is likely but its timing, location, and magnitude remain uncertain; the July...
Scientists have discovered erythrulose, the first definitive sugar molecule in interstellar space, within the G+0 molecular cloud near the Milky Way's center. This discovery is significant because sugars are essential for all known life, forming...
Mercury, the smallest planet in our solar system with a diameter of about 3,000 miles, has a surprisingly large core that makes up 85% of its diameter and 75% of its mass, which scientists believe...
Astronomers have discovered that approximately 76% of the universe's ordinary matter (baryonic matter) exists as thin ionized gas spread across the intergalactic medium, rather than being concentrated in galaxies or their halos. This discovery was...
The James Webb Space Telescope achieved a historic milestone in 2025 by directly imaging TWWA7B, a Saturn-mass exoplanet orbiting a 6-million-year-old star 111 light-years away, marking the first time a new planet was discovered purely...
Tabby's Star (Boyajian's Star, KIC 8462852) exhibits unusual irregular dimming events that cannot be explained by normal stellar activity or transiting planets, as the 15-22% brightness dips are far too large for typical exoplanets. While...
The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed that Neptune's auroras appear at mid-latitudes rather than the poles, due to its magnetic field being tilted approximately 47 degrees from the planet's rotation axis and offset from...
A 2,000-pound meteorite that crashed into a New Jersey home in July 2024 has been identified as a rare CM1/2 carbonaceous chondrite, containing prebiotic molecules, amino acids, and brine (concentrated salty fluids) that suggest the...
The James Webb Space Telescope discovered that Pluto actively cools itself through a unique atmospheric process where hydrocarbon haze particles absorb sunlight during the day and radiate heat back into space faster than the thin...
The Milky Way galaxy contains numerous hidden and mysterious phenomena that challenge our understanding of the universe, including missing ordinary matter (nearly half of the galaxy's expected baryonic matter remains undetected), magnetars (extremely dense neutron...
Iron planets are a type of terrestrial exoplanet characterized by a disproportionately large iron core (up to 91% of mass) and minimal silicate rock, making them significantly denser than Earth (5.5 g/cm³) or Venus (5.8...
Voyager 1, launched in 1977, became the first human-made object to enter interstellar space in 2013, but contrary to scientists' predictions of a clean magnetic field rotation at the heliopause, the spacecraft detected an unexpected...
The edge of the observable universe is not a physical boundary where space ends, but rather a horizon of time—a sphere of ancient light (the cosmic microwave background) that marks the earliest moment from which...
Astronomers have discovered ultramassive black holes like TON 618 (66 billion solar masses) and QSO 1 (50 million solar masses at 13 billion light-years away) that challenge current theories of black hole formation, as they...
A heat dome is a high-pressure system that traps warm air and creates above-average temperatures, as demonstrated by the forecast predicting temperatures reaching the mid-90s in the Umpqua Basin by Wednesday, with a heat dome...
NASA deliberately destroyed the Cassini spacecraft by sending it into Saturn's atmosphere on September 15, 2017, because its discovery of a subsurface ocean on Enceladus containing liquid water, chemical energy, and organic molecules—the fundamental ingredients...
Escaping the solar system's plane vertically requires nearly 10 times more energy than traveling to Pluto because spacecraft must first cancel Earth's 30 km/s orbital velocity, making the vertical axis the most expensive and least...
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, located in northern Chile, is the world's most powerful ground-based telescope with an 8.4-meter aperture and a 3,200-megapixel camera that captures images every 40 seconds. Named after Vera Rubin, who...
The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed multiple anomalies in the universe—including galaxies that appear too mature for their age, planets too massive for their systems, perfectly aligned gravitational lensing rings, and mysterious rhythmic pulses...
NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched in 1977 and designed for a 4-year mission, has become humanity's most successful deep space probe by detecting unexpected properties of the interstellar medium, including constant electron densities, persistent plasma...
Tropical cyclones form when warm sea surface temperatures provide energy for storm intensification, with systems like Tropical Storm Alita potentially strengthening into hurricanes (80-85 mph winds) that generate large ocean swells capable of traveling across...
During El Niño events, the Philippines experiences below-average rainfall due to the shifting of the area of cyclogenesis from the Marianas to the Central Pacific Ocean, which reduces tropical cyclone formation probability in the Philippine...
The Sun is a complex cosmic engine with distinct layers: an outer plasma ocean, a sunspot-dotted bright layer, and a core where nuclear fusion produces energy equivalent to 100 billion tons of dynamite every second....
The standard model of cosmology (lambda-CDM), which has been the best framework for understanding the universe for a century, is showing signs of fundamental problems at the largest scales. Multiple independent anomalies have been discovered:...
The James Webb Space Telescope has revolutionized our understanding of the universe by revealing that the early cosmos was far more dynamic and complex than previously believed, including surprisingly bright and well-organized galaxies existing only...
The solar system consists of the Sun at its center, surrounded by eight planets that orbit around it in a specific order: Mercury (smallest and closest to the Sun), Venus (hottest planet), Earth (our home...
Tornadoes can form when storms latch onto outflow boundaries, which are areas where cool air from a thunderstorm spreads out and pushes against surrounding warm air. In this North Dakota case, storms broke the atmospheric...
This educational video provides an overview of the solar system, including the eight major planets and their dwarf planet counterparts, with updated information about moons orbiting these celestial bodies.
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured the clearest infrared images of Neptune ever obtained, revealing unprecedented details of the ice giant's atmosphere, including its faint dust rings, bright methane-ice clouds, and atmospheric circulation patterns....
