1+ week, 6+ day ago   (708+ words) How is that possible? A new study, led by researchers at Stanford University in California, suggests an explanation. The researchers said on August 25, 2026, that gases slowly escaping from below the planets’ surfaces might replenish the gases that have been lost....

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (510+ words) When searching for possible signs of alien life on exoplanets, scientists tend to focus on atmospheres that might be earthlike. That is, atmospheres dominated by nitrogen, oxygen or even carbon dioxide. But there’s another possibility that has been largely overlooked....

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (535+ words) The galactic home of these three black holes is called J0148-4214. It lies 12.5 billion light-years away from us, in the very early universe. So we’re seeing it as it appeared about 1.2 billion years after the Big Bang, the initiation of our…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (792+ words) Since 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been capturing images that reach back to some of the earliest days of the universe. Intriguingly, mysterious Little Red Dots pepper these images. And on August 12, 2026, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (674+ words) What happened in the cosmic dark ages, before the first stars appeared? A tiny new satellite, about the size of a small suitcase, will try to finally answer that question. An international team of scientists, led by the University of…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (597+ words) This month, scientists using the preliminary data from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory said they had already discovered Rubin’s first ultra-faint satellite galaxy orbiting our home galaxy, the Milky Way. They’ve dubbed the new galaxy Aquarius IV. It’s one of the…...