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Astronomers say that ancient almost impossibly massive "Little Red Dots" may be black holes trapped in "cocoons."

Galactic Monsters Grew in Cocoons Like Giant Bugs, Scientists Say

By Frank Landymore

The vast "sheet" of dark matter could explain why almost all of our galactic neighbors are running away from us.

Our Entire Galaxy Appears to Be Embedded in a Colossal Sheet of Dark Matter

By Frank Landymore

Astronomers used an a custom-built AI tool to scour millions of Hubble images, uncovering the universe's overlooked curiosities.

AI Discovers Hundreds of Anomalies in Archive of Hubble Images

By Frank Landymore

A stunning new image taken with the James Webb Space Telescope provides a closeup look a dying star and its irradiated remains.

Mind Blowing James Webb Photo Shows Star Crumbling Into Dust

By Frank Landymore

A pair of incredible images show the very moment that two different stars exploded, an incredible display that's melting our minds.

These Snapshots of the Moment a Star Exploded Will Fill You With Cosmic Dread

By Frank Landymore

A paper proposes a theory that outer space acts like viscous fluid, which if true explains discrepancies in what we observe in the universe.

Outer Space Is a Viscous Fluid, New Paper Claims

By Sharon Adarlo

The presence of a powerful structure around a white dwarf called a nebula has astronomers scratching their heads.

Astronomers Intrigued By Impossible Structure Around Dead Star

By Frank Landymore

Researchers claim to have used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to discover an entirely new type of celestial object: dubbed "Cloud-9."

Scientists Weirded Out by Cosmic Bones in Distant Space

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers discovered an extremely hot galaxy cluster in the region that was far hotter and older than current theories allow.

Scientists Discover Impossible Object in Deep Space

By Victor Tangermann

A team of astronomers believe they've witnessed, for the first time, a star exploding in a mythical "superkilonova."

Gravitational Waves

Astronomers Appear to Have Caught a Star Splitting In Half, With Catastrophic Results

By Frank Landymore

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