Super Typhoon Sinlaku Sent Gravity Waves to Space Weather
When Super Typhoon Sinlaku intensified over the North Pacific in April 2026, it didn’t stop at the ocean’s surface. The ...
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Roman Telescope to Reveal 100,000 Hidden Exoplanets
Imagine pointing a camera into the crowded heart of the Milky Way and suddenly finding a treasure trove of worlds you ne...
M88: A Spiral Galaxy Stripped as It Falls into Virgo
Look at that curl of starlight. Messier 88 — a graceful spiral some 63 million light-years away — is not just drifting t...
Meteor Airburst Rattles New England with 300-Ton Blast
The afternoon sky over New England cracked like a whip when a bright meteor detonated above Massachusetts and New Hampsh...
Two Strange White Dwarfs Rewrite Rules of Stellar Death
Imagine two dead stars that refuse to behave like other corpses of the cosmos. They glow in X-rays. They spin like tiny ...
How Exploding Stars and AI Will Remap the Expanding Universe
They used to be cosmic lighthouses you trusted without question. Type Ia supernovae—white dwarfs detonating in ways that...
Inside the Sun's Record Radio Burst That Lasted 19 Days
Imagine a radio signal from the Sun that simply wouldn't quit. It started on an ordinary August morning in 2025 and kept...
A Supermassive Black Hole That Precedes Its Galaxy
Imagine finding a skyscraper standing alone on a vacant lot, built before the neighborhood that should surround it. That...
NASA's Webb Finds Methane on a Temperate Exo-Saturn
Imagine a world the size of Saturn, bathing in warmth that's closer to a scorching car interior than the frozen depths o...
Could Our Instruments Be Missing Signs of Alien Life?
Imagine discovering life and not recognizing it. Strange, right? Yet that possibility sits at the heart of a new paper l...
NASA Starts Phase One of a Sprawling Moon Base Build
Imagine tractors, drones and rovers unpacking themselves under a cold, slow sun. That image is no longer a prop from a s...
NASA's New AI Chip Could Let Spacecraft Make Decisions
Imagine a palm-sized computer that can sift through terabytes of sensor data, decide in an instant which images matter, ...
Asteroid Craters May Have Nurtured Earth's First Oxygen
Imagine a shallow lake stirred not by wind but by the afterglow of an asteroid strike. Warm, mineral-rich, and oddly she...
Psyche’s Mars Flyby: A Gravity Boost and New Views
A robotic probe skimmed past Mars on May 15 and left the Red Planet with more than a faster orbit. It left with pictures...
A Black Hole Crash May Be Closer Than We Think
Half a billion light-years away, a galaxy called Mrk 501 may be staging one of the most dramatic events in the universe—...
Why This ‘Forbidden’ Giant Planet Has Astronomers Stumped
A planet this big has no business circling a star this small. And yet TOI 5205b is right there, forcing astronomers to r...
Study: Hidden Plume Under Mars Could Be Speeding Rotation
Mars is trimming fractions of a millisecond off its day. It sounds trivial, but for planetary scientists, that tiny chan...
Mars' 'Pyramid' in Candor Chasma: Nature, Not Aliens
A dramatic triangle of shadow and light catches the eye: a three-sided peak tucked into the folds of Candor Chasma, one ...
Inside NASA's First Astronaut Medical Evacuation Revealed
It began with a routine day aboard the International Space Station and ended with an unusually fast trip home. Mike Finc...
Moonquakes Found Across the Maria: A New Global Map
When the Moon creaks, it does so in more places than we imagined. New mapping shows that the dark basalt plains — the ma...