November 4, 2019 Our universe may be a giant loop, new study claims The universe may actually be curved, like a giant inflated balloon, a new study claims.
October 31, 2019 NASA has found the 'jack-o'-lantern nebula' NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has found a massive nebula in deep space that "looks like a celestial jack-o'-lantern." The study's researchers have given it the nickname "Jack-o'-lantern Nebula," apropos for Halloween.
October 29, 2019 Hubble Telescope spots 'ghostly face' in space The Hubble Telescope has spotted two galaxies colliding into one another, creating "a ghostly face" in space.
October 29, 2019 If there's a wormhole hiding in our galaxy, could we really find it? Wormholes, passageways that connect one universe or time to another, are still only theoretical — but that doesn't mean physicists aren't looking for them. In a new study, researchers describe how to find wormholes in the folds of our galaxy.
October 23, 2019 'Cosmic Yeti' from the dawn of the universe is discovered Astronomers in the U.S. and Australia have spotted a gigantic galaxy from the universe’s dawn that they have dubbed a “cosmic Yeti.”
October 18, 2019 Milky Way galaxy is a cosmic thief A newly published study notes that the Milky Way stole several dwarf galaxies from the neighboring galaxy, Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), including the Carina and Fornax, because of an ongoing merger between the two.
October 11, 2019 A second interstellar visitor has arrived. Astronomers think they know where it came from For the second time ever, astronomers have detected an interstellar object plunging through our solar system. But this time, researchers think they know where it came from.
October 10, 2019 Early earthlings may have watched the galaxy's center explode 3.5M years ago At the center of our galaxy is a supermassive black hole which, apparently, likes to blow bubbles.
October 8, 2019 Mysterious ‘cosmic web’ that sticks the universe together pictured for first time The cosmic web responsible for 'gluing' the far-flung galaxies of the universe together has been directly observed for the first time ever.
October 7, 2019 Milky Way galaxy's center exploded 3.5M years ago The Milky Way galaxy is home to all life as we know it, but about 3.5 million years ago, something strange and "dramatic" happened to it — a massive explosion in its center.