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Scientists Discover a Hidden World Near Pluto That Has Been Evading Detection for Years
A mysterious icy world may have been hiding in the outer Solar System for years, despite orbiting within the same distant region as Pluto. Astronomers have now identified a potentially enormous dwarf planet candidate called 2026 ED138, which could measure up to 1,500 kilometers (932 miles) across. Its discovery has raised fresh questions about how…
The Man Who Turned Antarctic Ice Into A Telescope Just Won The Nobel Prize
A physicist has just won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for helping build a telescope unlike anything most people have ever seen. Instead of sitting on a mountain or orbiting Earth, this extraordinary observatory is buried deep beneath the frozen landscape of Antarctica, where thousands of sensors wait for tiny flashes caused by particles…
The Woman Behind NASA’s Next Giant Telescope Was Breaking Barriers Long Before Hubble Took Flight
A NASA telescope preparing to explore some of the biggest mysteries in the universe carries a name that deserves far more attention. Nancy Grace Roman helped shape American space astronomy from its earliest days, becoming NASA’s first chief astronomer and its first female executive. Long before the Hubble Space Telescope became one of the most…
Grok Was Asked To Remove ‘Fake Gods’ From An Image. What It Did Next Sparked A Viral Debate
An X user gave Grok a surprisingly simple image-editing request: remove the “fake gods” from a picture. What the AI chatbot produced was far more provocative than a routine edit, leaving one religious figure standing while every other god and mythological character appeared to have disappeared. The original illustration featured Zeus, Thor, Anubis, Quetzalcoatl, Ganesha,…
Mercury Could Be Smaller Than Its Ancient Size By Miles
Mercury has been shrinking for billions of years, but scientists may have seriously underestimated how much the planet has contracted. A new analysis suggests its roughest terrain has been hiding evidence of that dramatic change. The revised estimate puts Mercury’s radial contraction between 6.9 and 11.6 kilometers. At the upper end, that could mean the…
NASA Just Captured An Incredible Look At A Black Hole Jet Moving Near Light Speed
Something extraordinary is happening 55 million light-years from Earth, where a supermassive black hole is blasting a gigantic stream of matter and energy into space at speeds approaching the speed of light. NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has now produced its most detailed X-ray view yet of this enormous jet, revealing structures that appear to move…
Scientists Say They’ve Finally Found Where the Universe Hid Its Missing Matter
For decades, astronomers faced one of the strangest accounting problems in the universe. Scientists had a strong idea of how much ordinary matter should exist after the Big Bang, yet when they counted the stars, planets, galaxies and visible clouds of gas around them, a huge portion appeared to be missing. Ordinary matter makes up…
A High School Student Made A Remarkable Discovery At NASA
Most teenagers would probably spend their first few days at NASA trying to understand where everything is and how not to look completely lost. Wolf Cukier had a very different introduction to the space agency. Just three days into his internship, the 17-year-old high school student noticed an unusual signal buried in telescope data. What…
Scientists Get An Extraordinary Look Inside A Young Star System
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured an extraordinary view of HH 30, a young stellar system buried inside a dark cloud of gas and dust. The image looks almost like a cosmic painting, but the strange structures reveal a process that could eventually produce entirely new worlds. The telescope did not photograph the literal…
August 12 Could Be The Biggest Night For Skywatchers In 2026
August 12, 2026, could be an unusually busy day for anyone who likes looking up at the night sky. A total solar eclipse will cross parts of the Northern Hemisphere, while the annual Perseid meteor shower reaches its peak around the same time, creating a rare stretch of days when several major celestial events compete…