JWST found hidden stars in early galaxies making them up to four times more massive than astronomers thought. Here is what the missing mass really means.
NASA Is Spending $2.6 Billion to Land on the Moon 17 Times Before Anyone Actually Lives There
NASA is spending $2.6 billion to land robots on the Moon 17 times before a single person lives there. Here is the real reason — and what it reveals about us.
Einstein’s Biggest Blunder Was Right All Along
Einstein spent 40 years erasing his ‘biggest blunder.’ New evidence on the universe’s runaway expansion suggests he was onto something bigger than he knew.
A Black Hole Shredded a Star With More Force Than Any Explosion Ever Recorded — And Something Survived
A black hole shredded a star with the force of 400 billion suns. Months later, scientists found something in the wreckage that shouldn’t have survived at all.
The La Brea Toad Fossil Nobody Noticed for 94 Years
A new Ice Age toad species was just named from a La Brea Tar Pits fossil that sat ignored in a museum drawer for 94 years — and what that quietly says.
Black Holes Older Than the Big Bang? What Scientists Found
New research suggests some black holes may be older than the Big Bang itself — and could help explain one of physics’ biggest lingering mysteries: dark matter.
Scientists Just Found What Actually Holds Matter Together
Physicists just solved a 50-year mystery about what holds matter together at the subatomic level — and it’s not what you learned in school.
The Aging Brain Isn’t as Isolated as We Thought
Stanford scientists found the aging brain welcomes reinforcements from the rest of the body, overturning what we thought we knew about how isolated it is.
Scientists Just Detected a Nuclear Reactor’s Ghostly Afterglow
A shut-down nuclear reactor kept sending out a faint, real signal for weeks after the power went off completely. Here’s what scientists actually found there.
The Black Hole Star Too Bright to Exist
Astronomers just found a “black hole star” from 660 million years after the Big Bang, shining far brighter than physics says it should. Here’s what it means.