We still don't fully understand what triggers lightning. A new study suggests that showers of cosmic rays may be the missing link. Cosmic rays may offer an out-of-this-world answer to a long ...

University of Warwick/Mark Garlick A dramatic cosmic event is winding up to occur right in our backyard. Astronomers have spotted a pair of stars bound for collision, located just 150 light-years ...

Satellites come in all shapes and sizes, but there aren't any that look quite like SPHEREx, an infrared observatory NASA launched Tuesday night in search of answers to simmering questions about ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. New images of the infant universe captured by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) are the ...

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope, or ACT, measured properties of the Big Bang’s thermal afterglow, known as the cosmic microwave background, with unprecedented sensitivity — particularly in the ...

Type 1a supernovae are a special type of cosmic explosion. They occur when a white dwarf–the dense remnant core of a star–takes in too much mass. The former star then can’t withstand its own ...

Latte Art is a gameplay mechanic in Good Coffee, Great Coffee that can pretty-up your customer's drinks. When you first unlock Latte Art, you'll have three types of designs to master for the World ...

This unexpected uniformity suggests a deeper cosmic structure or force. These findings fuel the hypothesis that our universe might reside within a black hole, warranting further investigation to ...

While Earth’s one and only moon enthralls everyone on this planet, it can’t hold a candle to Saturn’s 274 moons, 128 of which were recently discovered and recognized by the International Astronomical ...

Measurements of the faint afterglow of the Big Bang (known as the cosmic microwave background) are also important. They do not directly measure dark energy or how it evolves, but they provide ...

The plot revealed a neat line separating our solar system’s bare rocks and snowballs from worlds wreathed in gas, a boundary he called the cosmic shoreline. “I was consciously trying to invoke an ...