A Rock Slammed Into Jupiter Creating the Brightest Impact Flash in 28 Years
Professional astronomers noticed a big light on Jupiter last October. Something hit the solar system’s biggest planet, producing the energy equivalent to two megatons of…
Astronomy
A Dying Star Is Taking Its Whole Star System with It
Astronomers have discovered a white dwarf that is eating asteroids and comets for the first time, implying that this monster, which is 86 light-years from…
Neutron Stars will tell us if Dark Energy is real or not
For the past two decades, physicists have known that the universe’s expansion is accelerating, as if some strange “dark energy” is blowing up space like…
Planet Birth is still possible from Dying Stars
Planets are typically not much older than the stars that they orbit. Consider the Sun: it was created 4.6 billion years ago, and Earth followed…
Evidence for Dark Matter-free Galaxies is Emerging
The majority of the mass in the universe is in the form of dark matter, a new type of nonbaryonic particle that has yet to…
AI Reveals Hidden Math Driving Exoplanet Search
The astronomers’ goal is to develop an artificial intelligence algorithm to interpret microlensing events captured by the upcoming Roman Space Telescope and to accelerate the…
Perseverance Spots Snake Head and a Balancing Cairn on Mars
The amazing scenery that the robotic population of Mars has uncovered on its journeys can’t help but leave you speechless. Certain characteristics of Mars, such…
Professor Brian Cox on Following Perseverance in New Film Seven Days on Mars
When the Perseverance rover landed on the surface of Mars in 2020, kicking off a new age of exploration on the Red Planet, it sent…
Internet Is Aflutter with Claims of Alien Signals Detected by World’s Largest Telescope
The Internet is buzzing with reports that Chinese scientists have discovered probable alien technology signals using the world’s biggest radio telescope, the FAST (Five-hundred-meter Aperture…
Fastest-Growing Supermassive Black Hole of the Last Nine Billion Years Discovered
The brightest objects are sometimes the most difficult to locate, which is why it took scientists so long to detect the brightest quasar in the…
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