In a study published March 14 in The Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, astronomers announced the discovery that all galaxies rotate about once every billion years, no matter their si | Continue reading
Earth is the only place in the universe where we know life exists. But with billions of other star systems out there, it might not be the best place for life. | Continue reading
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft revealed this distant Kuiper Belt object to be a contact binary with many odd twists. | Continue reading
The planet has an upper atmosphere some 10 times hotter than any other world yet measured, which astronomers think is causing heavy metals to stream away from the planet. | Continue reading
The super energetic gamma rays originated thousands of light-years away in the Crab Nebula, and scientists still aren't exactly sure what generated them. | Continue reading
An asteroid hit Mars billions of years ago, forming Lomonosov Crater. It also may have a 1,000-foot-high tsunami that swept across the young Red Planet. | Continue reading
Do you know all 203 moons of the Solar System?! | Continue reading
Our supermassive black hole has been on a diet for millions of years… but when did it last splurge? | Continue reading
The universe's first stars were extremely hot and incredibly large, often reaching hundreds of times the mass of the Sun. New research published this week in The Astrophysical Journal suggests these | Continue reading
Antimatter particles correspond to the regular particles that we are used to, such as protons and electrons, but with the opposite electrical charge and magnetic properties. But when antimatter and m | Continue reading
Ever since Einstein, scientists have also been scratching their heads about how to make sense of space and time. Before then, almost everybody thought Isaac Newton had figured it all out. Time “flows | Continue reading
Researchers have developed a device called a snowball chamber, which keeps water in a supercooled state until an incoming particle triggers it to freeze almost spontaneously. They hope the new tool w | Continue reading
The helium hydride ion should have been the first molecular bond formed after the Big Bang, but it's been notoriously hard to find - until now. | Continue reading
Years after two planets were discovered orbiting the binary star in Kepler 47, astronomers spotted a new planet sneak into view. It only adds to the system's many oddities. | Continue reading
Orbital Display is a Russian startup’s effort to bring billboard advertisements to low-earth orbit using a grid of tissue box-sized satellites called CubeSats. | Continue reading
Last Month, NASA's Mars InSight lander’s “mole” got stuck after 4 hours of digging. Scientists are scrambling to solve the problem and get it digging again. | Continue reading
By mapping the distances to over 1,000 pulsating stars, astronomers have discovered a distinct kink in the Milky Way's disk. | Continue reading
Orbital Display is a Russian startup’s effort to bring billboard advertisements to low-earth orbit using a grid of tissue box-sized satellites called CubeSats. | Continue reading
Orbital Display is a Russian startup’s effort to bring billboard advertisements to low-earth orbit using a grid of tissue box-sized satellites called CubeSats. | Continue reading
Scientists have discovered derivatives of life’s building blocks in carbon-rich meteorite samples, a first. They also showed how biological compounds can form in interstellar space. These new finding | Continue reading
Using observations of tidal debris from a dwarf known as the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy, astronomers have been able to reconstruct the orbit of Sagittarius and derive models for the Milky Way and its d | Continue reading
A team of engineers spent years giving new life to old NASA tapes with behind-the-scenes audio from the Apollo era. | Continue reading
On October 19, 2017, astronomers first saw an object from another solar system traveling through our own. What have we learned about this mysterious visitor? | Continue reading
When it comes to space exploration, no one has the Voyager missions beat. On October 5, NASA reported that their Voyager 2 spacecraft is nearing our heliosphere’s outer borders, and could soon enter | Continue reading
If we wish to colonize another world, finding a planet with a gravitational field that humans can survive and thrive under will be crucial. If its gravity is too strong our blood will be pulled down | Continue reading
Machine learning technology can help astronomers identify signals amidst the noise of the universe. | Continue reading
A tale of physics, spacecraft design, and dumpster diving | Continue reading
Just last year, three American physicists shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for their role in the historic detection of gravitational waves. These signals came from cosmic ripples in space-time creat | Continue reading
A bizarre rogue planet without a star is roaming the Milky Way just 20 light-years from Earth. And according to a recently published study in The Astrophysical Journal, this strange, nomadic world h | Continue reading
The functioning instruments aboard the Voyager spacecraft | Continue reading
Get ready for a big nova event. | Continue reading
It’s basically a solar system without a sun. | Continue reading
A speeding interstellar invader, the fastest-growing black hole, and more than 10,000 nearby white dwarfs. These are just a few of the early results from the newly released Gaia data. | Continue reading
Less than a year ago, astronomers discovered ‘Oumuamua, the first known object from another star system to pass through our own. Now, in a new study published today in the Monthly Notices of the Roya | Continue reading
Erik Verlinde’s theory of emergent gravity is proof that not all physicists believe dark matter is necessary to explain the cosmos. | Continue reading