The Daily Sift

The final supermoon rises as satellites crowd the sky and new telescopes uncover elemental secrets in dying stars. The future of space is shifting.

The cosmos is getting weird fast: slowing expansion, alien-chemistry ice, quantum gravity breakthroughs and new worlds next door.

Dark energy fading. Mars whispers fossils. JWST finds alien hints. The cosmos speaks—are we finally listening?

• Dark energy isn’t constant after all: DESI’s 3‑year survey of nearly 15 million galaxies hints that the mysterious energy accelerating cosmic expansion is weakening with time . The data show the influence of dark energy may be decaying , suggesting the universe’s fate might be very different from the eternal acceleration once predicted • A baby planet caught in the act: Using the MagAO‑X adaptive optics system, astronomers captured the first clear image of WISPIT 2b—a five‑Jupiter‑mass prot...

• European Space Agency (ESA) just confirmed that the tally of near-Earth asteroids has now crossed 40,000, a milestone underscoring how exhaustively we’re cataloguing cosmic hazards — and how essential planetary-defense infrastructure has become. • Meanwhile, the cosmic backdrop remains dynamic: a distant red giant, scarred by a past stellar collision, just revealed its hidden history through unexpectedly rhythmic “starquakes” — a reminder of how violent and fluid stellar evolution can be. ⸻...

6000 exoplanets, Mars life hints, Saturn’s mystery beads, a comet on approach. The cosmos is alive—are we near first contact?

Dark energy weakens. Quantum gravity flickers. Biosignatures glow. The cosmos is speaking again—and we’re finally listening.

The cosmos is rewriting its own script — from evolving dark energy to whispers of alien life and the hum of hidden gravity.