https://www.pexels.com/photo/trash-near-door-1549528/ The vast expanse of space might seem endless, but it quickly becomes cluttered with human-made debris. Every satellite we send up, every rocket we launch, leaves behind remnants that continue to circle our planet. These discarded pieces
Read Full ArticleNew research suggests that dark matter can't be too heavy or it might break our best model of the cosmos. We have evidence aplenty that something fishy is occurring in the universe. Stars orbit within galaxies far too hurriedly. Galaxies
Read Full ArticleWithin almost every galaxy has a SMBH (supermassive black hole). The beast at the heart of our galaxy Milky Way contains the mass equivalent to millions of suns, while some of the largest SMBHs can be over a billion solar
Read Full ArticleFor us humans, the most important star in the cosmos is our own Sun. The second-most significant star is located inside the Andromeda galaxy. Don't go looking for it — this flickering star and our earth are 2.2 million light-years
Read Full ArticleThe cosmos really seems to be expanding fast. A new measurement confirms what highly debated previous results had shown: The cosmos is expanding faster than predicted by theoretical models, and faster than our current understanding of physics can explain. This
Read Full ArticleIs the Milky Way the lone one that exists in the Cosmos? Or does Cosmos extend far beyond Milky Way? We are now absolutely certain that the second answer is correct. However, it was proven for the very first time
Read Full ArticleJWST (The James Webb Space Telescope) was specifically meant to address some of the greatest unsettled questions in cosmology. These include all of the key questions experts have been pondering since HST (the Hubble Space Telescope) took its deepest views
Read Full ArticleUttermost close-up of one of the brightest objects in the universe has just been taken. Using HST (the Hubble Space Telescope), astrophysicists homed in on a quasar called 3C 273, some 2.5 billion light-years away from Earth. It's one of
Read Full ArticleBy proving a controversial finding made more than 20 years ago using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, NASA’s newer space telescope JWST just solved a conundrum. In the year 2003, Hubble provided evidence of a gigantic planet around a very old
Read Full ArticleOne of the biggest ambiguities in science—dark energy—doesn't in fact exist, according to scientists looking to solve the riddle of how the cosmos is expanding. Their analysis has been published in the open access journal MNRAS Letters (Monthly Notices of
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