17+ hour, 9+ 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…...

9+ hour, 14+ min ago   (356+ words) starlust.org Rare supernova lights up spiral galaxy 45 million light-years away; check out these pictures A new supernova emerges This supernova named SN 2026aaiv in the galaxy Caldwell 30 or NGC 7331 was discovered by the ATLAS survey on September 1 and it's reportedly…...

3+ day, 2+ 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…...

4+ day, 2+ hour 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, 10+ 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, 17+ 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, 27+ min 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, 2+ hour 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   (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…...