Space science loves a good mystery, but some cosmic riddles have proved stubbornly resistant to explanation even in 2025. Powerful telescopes, gravitational-wave detectors, and AI-driven surveys have turned the night sky into a data firehose, and yet the universe keeps serving up signals that do not fit our neat theoretical boxes. From invisible matter ...
For decades, black holes have been cast as the ultimate full stop of the universe: regions where gravity wins, light loses, and everything ends in silence. Now, a new set of theories is rewriting that script, suggesting black holes might be less like cosmic trash compactors and more like tunnels or gateways that reshape ...
Space used to feel like a distant backdrop: a glittering wallpaper behind the real action of life on Earth. In 2025, that illusion has been completely shattered. A fleet of new missions is peeling back the universe layer by layer, challenging ideas that seemed rock solid barely a decade ago and raising questions nobody ...
Space should be the ultimate triumph of physics and prediction, yet the deeper we look, the more it behaves like a cosmic riddle box. From stars that refuse to shine the way they “should” to eerie radio signals that switch on and off like broken lighthouses, astronomers keep stumbling across objects that do not ...
Why does the universe look so orderly when, underneath, it seems governed by chaos and mystery? Astronomers can map distant galaxies and weigh black holes, yet some of the biggest questions about reality itself remain maddeningly open. Over the last few decades, powerful telescopes, gravitational-wave detectors, and particle colliders have turned cosmology into a ...
At the frozen edge of our solar system, far beyond Pluto’s dim orbit, a quiet mystery is tugging at the paths of icy worlds – and at the imagination of astronomers. For more than a decade, strange patterns in the motions of distant objects have hinted that something massive may be lurking out there, ...
Long before telescopes and space probes, people stared up at the night sky and tried to make sense of the glittering chaos above them. Their explanations took the form of myths: gods hurled into the heavens, animals frozen in light, serpents swallowing the Sun. For a long time, science treated these stories as superstition ...
For the first time in human history, we’re seriously mapping where in our own cosmic backyard life might be hiding – and the shortlist is both thrilling and unnerving. Astronomers and planetary scientists are no longer asking whether alien life is possible, but where the odds are best, and what kind of strange ecosystems ...
Imagine a cosmic drill bit boring through the universe, not made of steel, but of galaxies – thousands of them – twisting together in a majestic, silent whirl. That is roughly what astronomers have just uncovered: a gigantic, rotating structure that behaves like a tornado made of galaxies, stretching across almost unimaginable distances. This ...
The universe keeps refusing to behave the way we expect, and that’s exactly what makes this moment in astronomy so electric. In just the past few years, a wave of discoveries has forced scientists to redraw cosmic timelines, rethink how galaxies form, and even question whether our cherished “standard model” of cosmology is the ...
