A massive collision of galaxies sparked by one traveling at a scarcely-believable 2 million mph (3.2 million km/h) has been seen in unprecedented detail by… Read More »WEAVE Telescope Captures a High-Speed Galactic Collision
The question of why life uses molecules with specific orientations—favoring left-handed over right-handed structures—has puzzled scientists for years. Recent research published in Nature Communications has… Read More »RNA Does Not Favor Left-Handed Amino Acids, Study Finds
The search for the universe’s dark matter could end tomorrow—given a nearby supernova and a little luck. The nature of dark matter has eluded astronomers… Read More »Astronomers Bet on Supernova to Unmask Dark Matter
WOH G64 is an enormous star located about 160,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. This… Read More »Astronomers Capture Unprecedented Details of Dying Star WOH G64
Astronomers at the University of Toronto have made a groundbreaking discovery by identifying the first pairs of white dwarf and main sequence stars, commonly referred… Read More »Astronomers Discover Dozens of New White Dwarf-Main Sequence Binary Systems
One of the most challenging aspects of astrobiology and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) is anticipating what life and extraterrestrial civilizations will look like.… Read More »Challenging the Kardashev Scale: A New Framework for Extraterrestrial Civilizations
An international team of astronomers has recently identified an extraordinary multi-planet system around a star resembling our Sun, offering new insights into the dynamics of… Read More »Astronomers Discover a Super-Dense Exoplanet Orbiting a Sun-like Star
Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery involving two galaxies aligned in such a way that their combined gravitational effects create what is known as a… Read More »Astronomers Discover a Rare Double Lens System
Massive stars, typically around eight times more massive than our Sun, undergo spectacular explosions known as supernovae at the end of their lives. These explosions,… Read More »Massive Star Collapses Directly into Black Hole Without Supernova
New research led by the U.S. National Science Foundation’s National Center for Atmospheric Research (NSF NCAR) has uncovered new insights into the possible presence of… Read More »Scientists Uncover Evidence of Solar Polar Vortices