Every culture on Earth has stared up at the night sky, heard something strange, and filled in the gaps with stories. Before telescopes, satellites, and radio arrays, unexplained lights and eerie sounds from above were not data points but omens, monsters, and gods demanding attention. Today, astronomers are starting to decode some of those ...
When you look up at the night sky, it’s hard to imagine that our planet has been the target of countless cosmic projectiles over billions of years. These celestial visitors haven’t been gentle guests. Throughout Earth’s tumultuous history, massive asteroids and comets have slammed into our planet with devastating force, leaving behind scars that tell ...
Around ancient fires, people told stories about the sky tearing open – flames, thunder, and stones that fell like angry stars. Today, geologists and archaeologists are quietly revisiting those tales with lab tools and satellite eyes, asking a startling question: could cosmic impacts have nudged early societies toward cities, kings, and crops? The idea ...
Have you ever wondered how the dance of planets billions of miles away could shape life on our very own planet? Throughout Earth’s vast 4.5-billion-year history, the gravitational ballet performed by celestial bodies has orchestrated some of the most dramatic climate shifts and evolutionary leaps our world has ever witnessed. While most of us think ...
Picture this: somewhere in the vast darkness of space, two cosmic monsters are locked in a death spiral. These aren’t your average black holes – they’re giants, each containing the mass of dozens or even hundreds of suns. They’ve been orbiting each other for millions of years, slowly drawing closer. What happens next is one ...
The cosmos just threw us a curveball: a thunderclap of gravity from a collision so heavy, it shouldn’t exist under the usual rules of star death. In a hypothetical scenario involving detection during an observing run, the event forged a new black hole roughly about two hundred twenty-five times the Sun’s mass, pushing deep into ...
The first time NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has observed a big magnetic burst in the sun’s corona, this event could fundamentally alter our understanding of solar storms and their impact on Earth. Against expectations, the spacecraft “touches” the sun’s atmosphere in daring close passes and finds a great surge of energy flinging high-speed plasma towards ...
Astronomers have been narrating a dramatic tale about the fate of our galaxy for more than a century: the Milky Way is relentlessly on collision with Andromeda, its enormous neighbor. Once judged unavoidable within 4–5 billion years, the cosmic smash-up would destroy spiral galaxies and create a new, shapeless elliptical galaxy known as “Milkomeda.” But ...
