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Astronomers find BD+05 4868 Ab, a disintegrating planet with massive dusty tails
A rare and dramatic scene unfolds 140 light-years from Earth. A rocky planet, once whole, is now crumbling to dust under the brutal heat of its host star. The planet,…
Joseph Shavit
Physicists have successfully built a "black hole bomb" analog in the lab
SpaceScientists create world’s first black hole bomb in the labJoshua Shavit
A newly found dormant black hole, detected just 800 million years after the Big Bang, challenges what scientists thought about cosmic growth.
SpaceMassive black hole found taking a ‘nap’ after overeatingJoshua Shavit
TOI-715 b, a super-Earth discovered by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), resides 137 light-years away.
SpaceScientists find Earth-like exoplanets to be common in the universeJoshua Shavit
Part of the team behind the invention. From left: Peter Lodahl, Anders Sørensen, Vasiliki Angelopoulou, Ying Wang, Alexey Tiranov, Cornelis van Diepen.
DiscoveriesMajor achievement in quantum mechanics redefines quantum computing, encryptionJoseph Shavit
General relativity predicts that the only rotating black hole solution is the Kerr spacetime.
SpaceScientists finally solve thirty-year-old black hole mysteryJoshua Shavit
New theory suggests the universe may stop expanding and freeze in place, ending in a silent, cold stillness.
SpaceThe ‘Long Freeze’: A quiet apocalypse predicted to end the universeJoseph Shavit
Time travel might erase your memory, says new research linking physics and entropy in closed timelike curves.
DiscoveriesThe chilling side effect of time travel: Total memory lossMac Oliveau
A physics professor has proposed a bold new idea: the universe didn't begin with one Big Bang
SpaceNew theory challenges Big Bang, dark matter, and dark energy in the birth of the universeJoshua Shavit
AI model predicts where Earth-like planets may be hiding, boosting search for life beyond our solar system.
AICutting-edge AI finds 44 Earth-like worlds that may support lifeJoshua Shavit
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s observations of what is thought to be the first-ever recorded planetary engulfment event.
SpaceJWST captures first views of a planet swallowed by a star in real timeJoshua Shavit
Scientists developed a groundbreaking "cosmic radio" using quantum materials
SpaceScientists use ‘cosmic radio’ detector to find elusive dark matterJoshua Shavit
NASA's Perseverance rover discovers sulfate minerals in Mars' Jezero Crater
SpaceMars rover reveals a watery and possibly life-supporting pastJoshua Shavit
Astronomers uncovered the universe's missing matter as enormous halos of ionized gas around galaxies.
SpaceAstronomers discover the universe’s missing cosmic matterJoshua Shavit
NASA's Curiosity rover found iron carbonate deposits in Gale crater, providing powerful evidence of an ancient Martian carbon cycle
SpaceCuriosity rover reveals ancient carbon cycle on MarsJoshua Shavit
A slow cosmic spin may explain why the universe’s expansion rate appears inconsistent—solving a long-standing mystery in physics.
SpaceAstronomers believe the universe isn’t just expanding – it’s spinning tooJoshua Shavit
A protoplanet, roughly the size of Mars, slammed into the proto-Earth.
SpacePlanetary scientists reveal how the Earth and Moon actually formedJoseph Shavit