‘SPECIAL REPORTS’ Archives

A bizarre cosmic explosion has puzzled astronomers. It’s either a very rare case of the … “A Strange New Cosmic Explosion May Have Just Been Discovered”

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been giving us a fabulous new view on … “An Amazing JWST Image of a Protostar”

At first glance the large scale structure of the Universe may seem to be a … “Our Best Look at the Cosmic Web”

The giant-impact hypothesis posits that billions of years ago a Mars-sized body named Theia collided … “Why We Think Theia Existed”

“As we gracefully transition from the meditation and visualization practices that unravel the sublime Clear … Philosophy of the Tibetan Book of the Dead

The Earth is bathed in high-energy particles. Known as cosmic rays, most of them are protons … “Even Microquasars are Powerful Particle Accelerators”

When we first began searching for planets around other stars, one of the surprising discoveries … “White Dwarfs Pause Their Cooling, Giving Planets a Second Chance for Habitability”

A team of astronomers have mapped the nearby universe, from about 425 million to 800 … “Meet Quipu, largest known structure in the universe”

“Where there is envy and strife, there is an incompleteness; but where there is unity, … Completeness and Incompleteness

Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) were first theorized to exist in the late 1980s. In 2005, the first … “There could be a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud hurling stars at the Milky Way”