14+ hour, 32+ min ago   (411+ words) starlust.org What if dark energy is evolving? Comprehensive new dataset questions a core assumption For the first time, astronomers have assembled a catalog containing nearly 3,000 exploding stars. And now, all those stars are pointing them toward something they weren’t…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (445+ words) When we think about how everything would come to an end, we often imagine that the universe would slowly fade into dark nothingness over time. But there’s a theory, famously known as the Big Rip, that says it could end…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (687+ words) "Never encountered objects that act like this": NASA’s Chandra reveals a new class of cosmic objects starlust.org "Never encountered objects that act like this": NASA’s Chandra reveals a new class of cosmic objects Scientists have found an entirely new…...

4+ day, 10+ min ago   (437+ words) About 30 years ago, scientists made a discovery that changed what we thought we knew about the universe. They discovered that our universe was expanding instead of slowing down. And this expansion, in fact, was speeding up. But the story didn't…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (565+ words) starlust.org NASA's Hubble images 'superbubble' in Milky Way satellite galaxy—and it's helping study how stars are born NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a striking image of a nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud—one of the dwarf…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (441+ words) starlust.org Source of gravitational waves from a black hole merger weighing 230 suns may have been an illusion Scientists have come up with an explanation for why a particular source of gravitational waves was as atypical as it was—so…...

5+ day, 14+ hour ago   (207+ words) ​The matter that makes up you and all that we see in the universe was actually made inside stars a very, very long time ago. Explaining this, NASA shared, "These were all part of stars that existed well before our…...

6+ day, 5+ min ago   (400+ words) The idea that parallel universes exist is something we have often seen in movies and TV shows, but how true is it actually? Physicists and scientists around the world have been exploring the possibility of parallel universes for decades. But…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (478+ words) In 1610, Galileo spotted the first-ever moons beyond our planet with just a basic lens. Centuries after that, the astronomer Edwin Hubble discovered the first-ever galaxy outside our own. And today, the James Webb Space Telescope helps us look back to…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (216+ words) Scientists nicknamed this rusty-colored cloud of gas and dust, located inside the Trifid Nebula, the "Cosmic Sea Lemon" for its resemblance to a sea slug gliding through space. In April 2026, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope compared a new image of the…...