Browsing: Cosmic

February 4, 20264 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm‘Baby cluster’ of galaxies may challenge cosmic modelsDating to only a billion years after the big bang,…

How does one acquire star dust? One option, as the Perry Como song suggests, is to catch a falling star and put it in your pocket,…

January 27, 20261 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmAI reveals 800 never-before-seen ‘cosmic anomalies’ in old Hubble imagesScientists analyzed more than 100 million image cutouts…

January 25, 20264 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmJWST unveils most intricate map yet of cosmic dark matterAstronomers puzzled out minuscule distortions in images of…

January 5, 20262 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmStunningly Hot Galaxy Cluster Puts New Spin on How These Cosmic Behemoths EvolvedScientists detected gas at least…

December 23, 20252 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmSpectacular Cosmic Collision Captured in New Hubble ImageNASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured asteroids crashing into one another…

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman.As the year comes to an end, instead of catching up on the…

NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI, J. DePasqualeDay 20 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: The Cosmic Cliffs. The James Webb Space Telescope peered inside a…

December 17, 20252 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmStrange Cosmic Blast May Be First-Ever Superkilonova ObservedThe combination of a supernova and a kilonova may have…

It’s always amazing, and more than a little humbling, when the universe reminds us that our “common sense” is provincial, falling apart on cosmic scales.If you’re…