Browsing: Cosmic

August 12, 20252 min readCosmic Tornado from Star’s Birth Whirls in Dazzling JWST ImageThis telescope has revealed the whipped-up dust from the birth of a star—and…

BBCCharlotte Creevy was supported by a charity after her son stopped breathingCharlotte Creevy’s son Seth was two weeks old when he stopped breathing and was rushed…

Amid simmering anxiety about the future of federally funded science, the U.S. government has quietly withdrawn support for cosmology’s next premier project, an experiment that would…

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman.Today we’re leaving the podcast studio to take you on a field trip to the LIGO Lab…

On August 5, 1945—the day before the world ended—Frank Sinatra was at a yacht club in San Pedro, California. There, he is reported to have rescued…

Dark matter is a real pain in the neck.The term dark matter itself refers to a hypothetical substance that seems to solely interact with the rest…

The 18-story silhouette of the nearly completed Vera C. Rubin Observatory loomed above as I looked over a field of construction remnants a few weeks back.…

Scientists Find Universe’s Missing Matter in Intergalactic ‘Cosmic Fog’Researchers have used cosmic explosions called fast radio bursts to illuminate the intergalactic mediumBy Robert Lea & SPACE.com…

I don’t think it’s overly poetic to say that stars are how we know the universe.When we look out at the night sky, stars are overwhelmingly…