Articles for tag: cosmic phenomena, Solar System, unexplained phenomena, unsolved science

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6 Unexplained Phenomena in Our Solar System That Puzzle Scientists

Suhail Ahmed

Every time we think we’ve got our solar system neatly mapped and understood, it throws us something deeply weird. From objects that should not exist to signals that defy easy explanation, these mysteries are not just quirky space trivia; they are cracks in our current theories of how the universe works. In a way, they ...

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12 Space Mysteries That Sound Like They Were Pulled From Ancient Legends

Suhail Ahmed

  Some of the strangest space stories on Earth are not written in the stars at all, but in the deep, cold oceans that cover most of our planet. In the last few years, oceanographers have started to uncover cosmic-level mysteries beneath the waves: glowing “galaxies” of plankton, methane chimneys that look like frozen comets, ...

12 Signs the Milky Way Is Far Stranger Than We Ever Imagined

12 Signs the Milky Way Is Far Stranger Than We Ever Imagined

Gargi Chakravorty

You look up at the sky on a clear, dark night and see that glowing river of stars stretching across the darkness. It’s beautiful, right? Familiar, even. You probably think you know the Milky Way. You’ve heard about it since grade school. Turns out, we’ve all been looking at a much stranger place than we ...

Some Black Holes May Be Portals Through Spacetime

Some Black Holes May Be Portals Through Spacetime

Andrew Alpin

You’ve heard about black holes, those mysterious cosmic vacuum cleaners that swallow everything in their path. They’re terrifying and fascinating at the same time. Yet what if some of these enigmatic objects aren’t just dead ends in the universe but something far more incredible? What if they’re actually doorways to other places or even other ...

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8 Things Scientists Still Cant Figure Out About The Universe

Suhail Ahmed

  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 ...

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12 Signs the Milky Way Is Far Stranger Than We Ever Imagined

Suhail Ahmed

  The Milky Way looks serene in long-exposure photographs, a soft river of starlight arcing across the night sky. But as astronomers peel back the glow with new instruments and sharper data, our home galaxy keeps refusing to behave like the tidy spiral many of us learned about in school. Instead, it twists, ripples, flickers, ...

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10 Space Facts NASA Only Confirmed in the Last Decade

Suhail Ahmed

  The last ten years have completely rewritten what we thought we knew about space, often in ways that feel almost unsettling. In mission briefings and data dumps, NASA scientists have quietly confirmed discoveries that once sounded like science fiction: oceans under ice, worlds with possible rain made of metal, and black holes that seem ...

Our Galaxy's Central Black Hole: A Cosmic Monster Revealed

Our Galaxy’s Central Black Hole: A Cosmic Monster Revealed

Andrew Alpin

You know that feeling when you peer into something so vast, so extreme, that your mind struggles to comprehend it? That’s exactly what lies at the heart of your own galaxy. Not some distant enigma in a faraway corner of the universe, but right here in our cosmic backyard sits one of the most powerful ...

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Dark Matter and the Hidden Universe: New Frontiers in Astrophysics

April Joy Jovita

The universe is vast and mysterious, with over 85% of its mass composed of an invisible substance known as dark matter. Unlike ordinary matter, dark matter does not emit, absorb, or reflect light, making it challenging to study directly. Scientists continue to delve deeper into this enigma, uncovering its role in cosmic phenomena and the ...