14+ hour, 33+ 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…...

3+ day 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…...

4+ day, 12+ 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…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago   (387+ words) The observable universe is about 93 billion light-years in diameter, and the entire universe is even bigger than anything we can imagine. Most of the space in the universe appears to be empty, but is it really though? Now, we may…...

6+ day, 7+ 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   (138+ words) starlust.org 330 million light-years of darkness: The mystery of The Great Nothing—the Boötes Void Where the light of galaxies gives way to nothingness When astronomers peer into the night sky, they expect to see a multitude of lights, a…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (377+ words) starlust.org For the first time, scientists may have finally found direct evidence of dark matter Dark matter is the invisible glue that holds our universe together. Yet, we still don't know what it's made of or how it came…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (171+ words) As per NASA, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will help scientists study some of the biggest mysteries of the universe, which include “dark matter, dark energy, exoplanets, and almost anything from our own solar system to galaxies at the…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (379+ words) Scientists from around the world have spent years studying the universe. While we know a lot more about the cosmos than we did a century ago, there are still many mysteries that we have yet to solve. One of the…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (282+ words) We can look deep into space and see billions of stars, galaxies, and other cosmic objects. But all of that visible matter makes up only a small part of what the universe is believed to contain. Much of the universe…...