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What Came Before the Big Bang? Physicists Now Have Stranger Answers
The universe may have had a beginning. Or it may have had a previous life that ended in a colossal collapse before bouncing back into the expanding cosmos we see today. A team of physicists has proposed a strange alternative to the standard picture of cosmic history: the event we call the Big Bang may…
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…
Scientists Just Found a Sugar Drifting Through Deep Space, and It Could Rewrite the Story of Life
For decades, scientists have searched the universe for clues that might explain one of humanity’s oldest questions: how did life begin? Their hunt has uncovered water trapped inside distant asteroids, organic molecules scattered across galaxies, and even ingredients used to build DNA. Now, astronomers have added another remarkable piece to that growing puzzle after detecting…
Earth’s Mysterious Humming Vibration Has Surged For More Than A Week, Leaving Some People Blaming It For Sleepless Nights And Ringing Ears
For more than a week, the Schumann Resonance has become an unexpected focus of online conversation. Some social media users have linked recent elevated readings with broken sleep, vivid dreams, ear ringing, fatigue, and brain fog. The interest is understandable. Earth does have a measurable electromagnetic background rhythm, often described as its heartbeat. It is…
Rare Comet to Appear for First Time in 170,000 Years – Here’s How to See It
Looking up at the night sky this week offers a rare chance to see the same glowing beacon that appeared to our ancestors nearly 170,000 years ago. Long before the rise of modern civilizations or the invention of the wheel, this celestial traveler swept past Earth, leaving a mark on a world where early humans…