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Astronomers proposed a new mechanism behind mysterious fast radio bursts (FRBs), and it involves unlucky asteroids crashing into neutron stars. → Read More
From the Catholic priest who pioneered it, to how we can (almost) see it, here are 5 fascinating facts about the Big Bang. → Read More
Researchers have discovered a new 14-sided shape called the Spectre that can be used to tile a surface without ever creating a repeating pattern, ending a decades' long mathematical hunt. → Read More
In a distant star system, a sunlike star orbits an invisible object that may be the first example of a 'boson star' made of dark matter, new research suggests. → Read More
A new paper discusses how light interacts with theoretical objects called "topological solitons" — kinks in the fabric of space-time that look just like black holes. → Read More
In the early universe, gravity may have been capable of creating light, a new theoretical paper finds. → Read More
Scientists have proposed a way that the universe could stop expanding, ending in a 'Big Crunch' that resets space and time as we know it. → Read More
When the universe's first stars emerged from the cosmic dark ages, they ballooned to 10,000 times the mass of Earth's sun, new research suggests. → Read More
Blue straggler stars are the weird grandparents of the galaxy: They should be old, but they act young. Finding and studying these strange stars helps us understand the complicated life cycles of norma → Read More
Living in a rotating universe would be strange indeed. → Read More
Researchers confirmed that the distant galaxies discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope are, indeed, perfectly compatible with our modern understanding of cosmology. → Read More
Intergalactic gas clouds are slightly hotter than they should be, new research claims, and theoretical particles called 'dark photons' could explain it. → Read More
Want to become a published astronomer? All it takes is a spare telescope, or at least a decent internet connection, and plenty of patience. → Read More
These hypothetical stars are the densest objects in the universe that can exist without becoming full-fledged black holes. → Read More
In quantum physics, particles exist in many states at once until you measure them. Can reality really work that way? → Read More
In some interpretations of quantum mechanics, such as the Many-Worlds interpretation or the Pilot Wave Theory, parallel universes may form every time a subatomic particle goes through any interaction. → Read More
Einstein toyed with the idea of faster-than-light-particles but found that such particles violated a central rule of the universe: causality. → Read More
A special type of supernova might be able to destroy a planet's ozone layer years after the initial explosion. → Read More
A wild theory suggests that consciousness may explain quantum mechanics, by forcing the subatomic particles to choose one concrete outcome. → Read More
According to quantum mechanics, the physics theory that describes the zoo of subatomic particles, all matter can be described as both particles and waves. But is it real? → Read More