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NASA's upcoming Nancy Grace Roman space telescope will capture thousands of puzzling structures called cosmic voids.

NASA Says It’s Just Gonna Stare Into Cosmic Voids for a While

By Frank Landymore

An international team of researchers says it has spotted the largest rotating structure of dark matter and gas-rich galaxies.

Scientists Detect Huge Rotating Structure in Space

By Victor Tangermann

Apologies to our art director, who must depict a plane plunging after being blasted by cosmic rays, which is something that actually happened.

Passenger Jet Suddenly Dropped From Sky for a Wild Reason, Airbus Says

By Frank Landymore

A team of astronomers say they've made the first ever detection of dark matter by examining gamma rays near the center of the Milky Way.

Scientists Claim to Detect Dark Matter for the First Time Ever

By Frank Landymore

Mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS could be passing by Jupiter to "seed" the planet with "technological devices."

Professor Says Mysterious Interstellar Object May Be Releasing Sentinels Around Jupiter

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers have spotted an intriguing cluster of objects in the Kuiper belt, an enormous, donut-shaped region of icy objects beyond Neptune.

Scientists Discover Weird Structure in Outer Solar System

By Victor Tangermann

NASA finally released an early "peek" at the observations of its spacecraft of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS during a livestream today.

NASA Releases Long-Delayed Image of 3I/ATLAS

By Victor Tangermann

The observations are the earliest yet of a supernova, revealing in detail the moment that the shockwave obliterated the star.

Astronomers Witness the Moment a Fatal Shockwave Bursts Through the Surface of a Star

By Frank Landymore

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb is still not giving up hope that 3I/ATLAS could be an alien mothership and says it's too early to call it.

Harvard Scientist Suspicious About 3I/ATLAS’ Origins Fires Back at Critics

By Victor Tangermann

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb says interstellar object 3I/ATLAS could be firing its "thrusters" to leave the solar system.

Harvard Astronomer Says Mysterious Interstellar Object May Be Blasting Its Thrusters to Get Away From Us as Fast as Possible

By Victor Tangermann

An analysis of millions of galaxies found that the universe is barreling towards what is literally a much darker future.

Scientists Discover That the Universe Is Getting Worse and Worse

By Frank Landymore

In a controversial new paper, researchers argue that the acceleration of the universe's expansion has slowed down.

New Paper Claims Everyone Is Wrong, Universe’s Expansion Is Slowing Down

By Victor Tangermann

NASA staffers are raising concerns over a dozen buildings on its Goddard Space Flight Center's campus in Maryland being emptied.

NASA Staff Horrified at Plan to Throw Out Incredibly Specialized Science Equipment Like Garbage

By Victor Tangermann

Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is showing signs of "non-gravitational acceleration" as it reached its perihelion.

Mysterious Interstellar Object Showing Signs of “Non-Gravitational Acceleration”

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists were surprised to note that 3I/ATLAS brightened much faster than they anticipated during its perihelion last week.

The Mysterious Interstellar Object Has Unexpectedly Started Brightening, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomer Avi Loeb outlines nine "anomalies" that he says support his hypothesis that interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is an alien artefact.

Nine Reasons This Scientist Is Suspicious the Object Screaming Past the Sun Is a City-Sized Alien Spacecraft

By Victor Tangermann

According to astronomer Avi Loeb, it's the perfect day to test whether interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is the remnant of an alien civilization.

Mysterious Interstellar Visitor Reaches Perihelion Today

By Victor Tangermann

Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, which visits the Earth roughly every 71 years, was spotted releasing intriguing radio signals last year.

Scientists Intrigued by Radio Signals Coming From Comet

By Victor Tangermann

3I-ATLAS could be an alien craft slamming on its breaks to orbit Mars, noted astrophysicist Ari Loeb argues.

The Mysterious Interstellar Object May Be Slamming on the Brakes, Scientist Says

Avi Loeb suggested that if 3I/ATLAS is a spacecraft, it may use its proximity to the Sun's powerful gravitational pull while hidden from us.

Astronomer Suspects Mysterious Object Is Up to No Good While It’s Hidden Behind the Sun: “If You Want to Take a Vacation, Take It Before Then”

By Victor Tangermann

China's Chang'e-6 mission, the first sample return mission to the far side of the Moon, discovered extremely rare water-rich minerals.CN

China Found Something Fascinating on the Far Side of the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Keck II telescope observations of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS found "evidence for a puzzling anti-tail extension" pointing at the Sun.

Mysterious Interstellar Object Has Sprouted a Tendril Reaching Toward the Sun

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have identified two theories explaining the mysterious gamma ray glow at the center of the Milky Way.

Astronomers Ponder Strange Glow Coming From the Heart of Our Galaxy

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have created a new phase of ice that can form at room temperature but requires extreme levels of pressure.

Scientists Invent Room Temperature Ice

By Victor Tangermann

One of the most epic cosmic explosions ever seen may have been caused by a black hole infiltrating a star and destroying it from the inside.

Scientists Intrigued by Black Hole That Fell Into Star, Then Ate It From the Inside

By Frank Landymore

Astronomers have detected a mysterious dark object in the distant universe. It could be dark matter, or it could be something else.

Astronomers Detect Mysterious Dark Object in Distant Galaxy

By Frank Landymore

Astronomers say that NASA's James Webb Space Telescope may have spotted the universe's first "dark stars" that are fuelled by dark matter.

James Webb Appears to Have Spotted “Dark Star” Powered by Dark Matter, Paper Claims

By Victor Tangermann

Despite data suggesting interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is simply a comet, Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb still thinks something is off.

Astronomer: 30+ Percent Probability Interstellar Object Is Alien Craft Disguised as Comet

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover has seemingly managed to snap images of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS as it made its flyby of the Red Planet.

NASA Rover Appears to Catch Photo of Mysterious Interstellar Object From Surface of Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Galaxies "blazing with technosignatures" could suggest the existence of a "large number" of "different metasocieties."

Scientist Says Galaxies Shining With Radio Signals Could Indicate Numerous Advanced Civilizations

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers said they had found "undepleted phosphine," a molecule associated with life, on Earth in the atmosphere of a brown dwarf.

Astronomers Startled to Spot Abundance of “Biosignature” Molecules in a Failed Star’s Atmosphere

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers found that interstellar object 3I/ATLAS shows an "extreme abundance ratio" of nickel and iron in its gas plume.

The Mysterious Object Cruising Through Solar System Is Releasing Strange Metals, Paper Finds

By Victor Tangermann

Harvard astornomer Avi Loeb suggests interstellar object 3I/ATLAS could've sent off the Wow! Signal back in 1977.

Mysterious Object Cruising Through Solar System May Have Emitted a Signal, Scientist Says

By Victor Tangermann

Wormhole researchers suggest that LIGO and Virgo instead picked up the signals of a black hole collision in a different universe than ours.

Scientists Say They May Have Just Detected a Wormhole From Another Universe

By Victor Tangermann

Earlier this week, the Sun unleashed a flurry of plasma and magnetic fields, or coronal mass ejection, at interstellar object 3I/ATLAS.

Sun Fires Energy Blast Straight at Mysterious Interstellar Object Cruising Through Solar System

By Victor Tangermann

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb suggests interstellar object 3I/ATLAS could be far more massive than previously thought.

Mysterious Object Screaming Toward Mars Is Huge and Far More Massive Than Scientists Thought, According to New Paper

By Victor Tangermann

The polarity of a supermassive black hole lurking at the center of M87, a galaxy 55 million light-years from Earth, unexpectedly flipped.

Astronomers Spot Something “Totally Unexpected” at Event Horizon of Supermassive Black Hole

By Victor Tangermann

Astrophysicists have measured the recoil resulting from the birth of a new black hole that formed from the merger of two preexisting ones.

Gravitational Waves

Scientists Detect Strange Signal in Gravitational Waves

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers say they've found evidence of an ancient and never directly observed class of object known as a primordial black hole.

Scientists Discover Black Hole Created Less Than One Second After the Big Bang

By Frank Landymore

New research suggests that large planets can accumulate enough black matter in their cores to spawn a destructive black hole.

Scientists Say Black Holes Could Form Inside Planets, Leading to Absolute Catastrophe

By Frank Landymore

The astronomers estimated that the "ultramassive" black hole is over 10,000 times the mass of the Milky Way's black hole.

Scientists Discover What Appears to Be the Largest Black Hole in the Universe, So Heavy That It Completely Bends the Light Around It Into a Giant Ring

By Frank Landymore

An incredible object form by two colliding galaxies may be the site of a recently formed supermassive black hole.

Bizarre “Infinity Galaxy” Could Hold the Secrets of Supermassive Black Holes

By Frank Landymore

Clumps of dark matter may actually be interacting with light just a teensy bit, enough to dim the light of stars it passes in front of.

Astronomers Suggest That Entire Stars Are Being Obscured by Giant “Lampshades” of Dark Matter

By Frank Landymore

Astronomers Astonished by Largest Explosion Since the Big Bang

Astronomers Astonished by Largest Explosion Since the Big Bang

By Frank Landymore

If the Big Bang actually happened inside a black hole, it could neatly explain some of the universe's biggest mysteries.

Scientists Calculate That the Entire Big Bang Must Have Taken Place Inside a Black Hole

By Frank Landymore

Physicists say they've built the first-ever "black hole bomb" — an ominous-sounding concept that dates back to the late 1960s.

Scientists Say They’ve Built a “Black Hole Bomb”

By Victor Tangermann

The mysterious dark matter "bridge" found inside the Perseus cluster could reveal key details about the cluster's evolution.

Scientists Intrigued by Bridge of Dark Matter Inside Huge Galaxy Cluster

By Frank Landymore

Scientists want to build a new type of detector they liken to a "cosmic car radio," that could listen to what the dark matter is saying.

Scientists Say Dark Matter May Be Giving Off a Signal

By Victor Tangermann

A new study suggests our observable universe may be trapped inside a black hole after examining a James Webb Space Telescope survey.

Scientist Says He Found Evidence Our Entire Universe Is Trapped Inside a Black Hole

By Victor Tangermann

Recent research proposes a new form of dark matter that may actually be lighter in mass than other dark matter candidates.

Scientists Find Evidence of a New Form of Dark Matter Swirling at Center of Our Galaxy

By Frank Landymore

Astronomers say they've discovered one of the most masssive black holes ever discovered in the Cosmic Horseshoe.

Scientists Discover Black Hole So Gigantic That You Will Quiver in Existential Terror

By Victor Tangermann

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists witnessed a brilliant light show at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy.

Scientists Turned the James Webb to Examine Black Hole at Center of Our Galaxy and Saw Something Wild

By Noor Al-Sibai

The hole in the first-ever image of a black hole released a massive burp of gamma rays while astronomers were staring at it.

Astronomers Were Watching a Black Hole When It Suddenly Exploded With Gamma Rays

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers have spotted a black hole that's gobbling up matter at a seemingly impossible rate, surpassing previous limits.

There’s Something Impossible About This Ravenous Black Hole, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

Our universe may have another mirror universe on the other side of the Big Bang running backwards in time, physicist hypothesize.

Physicist Says There’s Another Universe Hiding Behind the Big Bang

By Frank Landymore

New observations uncovered more supermassive black holes than previously detected, which could hold clues to how they first formed.

The Early Universe Was Absolutely Littered With Black Holes, Scientists Find

By Frank Landymore

New NASA data shows a supermassive black hole on a merciless killing spree, destroying one star and using its body as a new weapon.

Murderous Black Hole Goes on Rampage, Leaves Path of Wrecked Stars in Its Wake

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A supermassive black hole is shooting out a jet so intense it's causing stars along its path to erupt in explosions called novas.

Scientists Say Furious Black Hole Making Nearby Stars Explode

By Frank Landymore

If true, this could resolve the information paradox posed by the existence of black holes, as first pointed out by Stephen Hawking.

Black Holes May Actually Be “Frozen Stars,” Scientists Claim

By Frank Landymore

Scientists have determined that a supermassive black hole is starving a galaxy of essential materials to make new stars.

Scientists Spot Giant Black Hole Destroying Galaxy

By Sharon Adarlo

Researchers at MIT suggest that the microscopic "primordial black holes" could be blasting through our solar system at least once a decade.

Scientists Suggest Tiny Black Holes Are Regularly Cruising Through Our Star System

By Victor Tangermann

A researcher from Kansas State University has revived an almost 100-year-old theory to refute that the Big Bang ever happened.

Scientist Disputes That Big Bang Actually Happened

By Victor Tangermann

Their mapping of dark matter confirms the discrepancies between observations of the universe's structures and our theoretical models of them.

Scientists Analyzing Deep Space “Forest” to Map Dark Matter

By Frank Landymore

Researchers suggest we should hunt for an ultralight dark matter candidate in the Earth's ionosphere, a "long shot."

The Earth May Be Swimming Through Dark Matter, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann