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The Big Bang May Have Been A Cosmic Bounce After All
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…
Physicists Have Been Trying to Remove Time From the Universe
For centuries, time has seemed like the one thing nobody could argue with. Clocks move forward, people grow older, stars form and disappear, and every event appears to happen somewhere between a past and a future. But when physicists tried to write an equation capable of describing the entire universe, they ran into a bizarre…
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…
NASA Watches a Hidden Black Hole Rip a Star Apart in Rare Cosmic Event
For decades, astronomers believed the universe’s most powerful black holes stayed anchored at the centers of galaxies, quietly shaping the stars and gas that surrounded them. That assumption has now been challenged after NASA and an international team of researchers captured one of the rarest cosmic events ever observed: a massive black hole lurking far…
Physicist Says Countless Alternate Versions of You Could Be Quietly Shaping Your Life
Every decision you make feels like your own. Whether it’s taking a different route home, saying yes to a new opportunity, or simply putting on a pair of sunglasses before stepping outside, life seems to unfold as a direct result of your choices. For decades, popular interpretations of quantum physics have fueled the belief that…
Scientists Say Intelligent Aliens May Never Need Physical Bodies
For decades, science fiction has trained us to imagine extraterrestrials as creatures with eyes, limbs, and faces that are at least vaguely familiar. Even the strangest movie aliens usually share one assumption with humans. They exist inside bodies. A growing philosophical argument suggests that assumption could be one of the biggest mistakes we’ve ever made.…
The Life Changing Experience Astronauts Have in Space
High above Earth, beyond the clouds and weather systems that define everyday life, astronauts often encounter something they struggle to describe. It is not just the silence of space or the beauty of the stars. It is a sudden and overwhelming shift in perspective that changes how they see the world and their place within…
Astronomers Uncover What Could Be a New Category of Planet
Gazing up at the stars, it is natural to imagine distant worlds as quiet, rocky landscapes or deep, frozen oceans. But the universe is far more creative than that. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have recently uncovered a bizarre celestial body 35 light-years away that breaks every established rule of planetary science. This…
On March 3, the Moon Will Turn Blood Red for 58 Minutes and Billions Will Have the Chance to Witness It
The universe is about to put on a show that will make the loudest city feel perfectly quiet. A rare celestial event is approaching, and it carries a profound, unspoken message waiting to be understood. Before scrolling past another astronomical headline, consider why this specific cosmic alignment might just be the exact moment of stillness…