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For decades, scientists believed Titan hid a vast global ocean beneath its frozen crust; a December 2025 reanalysis of Cassini data now suggests something stranger — layers of slush and isolated pockets of warm water near a rocky core
6+ hour, 33+ min ago (1402+ words) A newly measured tidal delay in Cassini's radio data favors warm, dissipative high-pressure ice and scattered melt pockets over Titan's long-assumed global ocean. By The Long View · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published August 16, 2026 · How we edit Titan’s buried ocean was…...
Scientists recreated the conditions on Saturn's moon Titan and watched molecules that shouldn't mix form stable crystals together — at around minus 179°C, polar hydrogen cyanide accepts nonpolar methane and ethane into its crystal structure, breaking one of chemistry's most familiar rules of thumb.
9+ hour, 28+ min ago (298+ words) Raman spectra and crystal modelling show how nonpolar hydrocarbons can enter highly polar HCN solids under Titan-like cold, with ethane the stronger surface candidate....
Tests of a new telescope captured the faint aftermath of a star’s death
12+ hour, 3+ min ago (195+ words) “We saw that image, and we were like: ‘This is new. This is something that we’ve never seen before,’” said Pieter van Dokkum, a physicist at Yale University and an author of the new study. “And when we did some…...
Uranus and Neptune may not be what we thought
12+ hour, 32+ min ago (1064+ words) Scientists are rethinking Uranus and Neptune as new evidence suggests the so-called ice giants may contain far less ice than once believed. For decades, Uranus and Neptune have occupied their own category in the Solar System: the ice giants. The…...
A galaxy with a double ring. ✨
9+ hour, 50+ min ago (34+ words) Meet Messier 94, also known as NGC 4736, a nearby spiral galaxy with a structure that is anything but ordinary. M94 is surrounded by two distinct ring structures …...
Astronomers Discover the Existence of a Black Hole Star
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James Webb discovers a “black hole star” the size of the Solar System
15+ hour, 25+ min ago (311+ words) The object appears as an extremely bright red dot, roughly the size of our Solar System. Yet its energy output is estimated to be 100 billion times greater than that of any ordinary star, making conventional nuclear fusion impossible as its…...
Could the Milky Way Look Like the Universe’s Center?
17+ hour, 3+ min ago (771+ words) The Milky Way is not the center of the universe. No observation has placed Earth or our galaxy in a privileged position, and the large-scale universe looks broadly the same in every direction. Avi Loeb recently explored a stranger possibility:…...
The Mysterious Little Red Dots: Tiny Beacons from the Dawn of the Universe
12+ hour, 59+ min ago (291+ words) JWST discovered thousands of mysterious Little Red Dots in the early universe. These compact objects may be black holes wrapped in dense gas cocoons, challenging our understanding of how the first supermassive black holes formed....
A black hole shredded a “super sun” — but something strange may have survived
22+ hour, 16+ min ago (674+ words) A massive star has been torn apart and gradually consumed by a black hole in a spectacular event that scientists compared to "preparing a snack for lunch." Astronomers around the world observed the extreme encounter, and the event was presented…...