German astronomers have made significant strides in understanding the behavior of RX J0513.9−6951 (also known as RXJ0513), a supersoft X-ray source (SSS) located in the… Read More »Astronomers Uncover New Clues About a Strange X-ray Source
The universe, in all its vastness and complexity, is not only an awe-inspiring subject of human curiosity but also an immense challenge to study and… Read More »Frontier Supercomputer Powers Largest-Ever Universe Simulation
Scientists have recently made significant strides in understanding the mysterious sources of heat that sustain the super-hot gas surrounding the Milky Way galaxy, which has… Read More »Researchers Explain the Origins of the Milky Way’s Super-Hot Gas
Panspermia suggests that life could travel between planetary bodies, serving as an alternative path for the emergence of life across solar systems. If evidence of… Read More »Microbial Contamination Challenges the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
A massive collision of galaxies sparked by one traveling at a scarcely-believable 2 million mph (3.2 million km/h) has been seen in unprecedented detail by… Read More »WEAVE Telescope Captures a High-Speed Galactic Collision
The question of why life uses molecules with specific orientations—favoring left-handed over right-handed structures—has puzzled scientists for years. Recent research published in Nature Communications has… Read More »RNA Does Not Favor Left-Handed Amino Acids, Study Finds
The search for the universe’s dark matter could end tomorrow—given a nearby supernova and a little luck. The nature of dark matter has eluded astronomers… Read More »Astronomers Bet on Supernova to Unmask Dark Matter
WOH G64 is an enormous star located about 160,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. This… Read More »Astronomers Capture Unprecedented Details of Dying Star WOH G64
Astronomers at the University of Toronto have made a groundbreaking discovery by identifying the first pairs of white dwarf and main sequence stars, commonly referred… Read More »Astronomers Discover Dozens of New White Dwarf-Main Sequence Binary Systems
One of the most challenging aspects of astrobiology and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) is anticipating what life and extraterrestrial civilizations will look like.… Read More »Challenging the Kardashev Scale: A New Framework for Extraterrestrial Civilizations