It’s a great scientific opportunity of modern times, but we won’t get there with our current observatories. One of the holy grails of modern science is to find a world, […]
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As many as 200 million people could fall permanently below the high tide line by 2100.
NASA JPL takes a first step toward a GPS for space.
For northern hemisphere skywatchers, it might just be the century’s best comet so far. Every once in a while, large, icy objects pass through the inner Solar System. C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) […]
A new study rocks prevailing theories on antimatter in the early Universe.
The biggest error from ‘A Brief History of Time’ continues to misinform generations of aspiring physicists. The greatest idea of Stephen Hawking’s scientific career truly revolutionized how we think about […]
ISS astronauts and NASA satellites capture amazing photos of the Raikoke volcano eruption.
When two black holes that shouldn’t exist are seen merging, physics has some explaining to do. After years of searching for gravitational waves, it finally happened: LIGO bagged the biggest one […]
If there are cracks in Einstein’s theory, this is how to find them. Is Einstein’s most powerful theory, General Relativity, always correct? Or will there come a point where it breaks […]
How does one supernova get so bright, so energetic, and so massive? It’s a spectacular mystery to solve. On February 22, 2016, one of humanity’s automated sky-scanning telescopes — the Pan-STARRS Survey for […]
A black hole’s event horizon is thought of as the point of no return. But perhaps there are ways back out, after all. Black holes just might be the most extreme […]
The ultimate lesson from Dr. Birx is one we should never, ever repeat. About a year ago, as the world experienced the deadly “first wave” associated with the coronavirus pandemic, many […]
From one serendipitously fortunate system, we gain a new window into the expanding Universe’s biggest conundrum. We’ve known our Universe is expanding for ~90 years, yet unsolved mysteries persist. The […]
If they saw us as we were before the recent industrial revolution, would there be any reason to particularly care about us? All across the Universe, trillions of galaxies can be […]
The ESO finds another exoplanet that’s definitely not a place for us to go.
The flying rotorcraft drone is set to land on Saturn’s largest moon in 2034.
A 71% wet Mars would have two major land masses and one giant ‘Medimartian Sea.’
Before the next big, dangerous, incoming rock arrives.
The White House is reportedly considering an executive order that would open up public access to scientific research.
Researchers from Japan add a new wrinkle to a popular theory and set the stage for the formation of monstrous black holes.
Reviewing the conflagration within Central Africa.
The intelligent life we are searching for doesn’t have to be humanoid.
Hawking radiation should really be happening, but black holes are farther from decaying than ever before. Black holes are, in many ways, the most extreme objects that will ever exist in […]
Physicists propose using time crystals to bring about a quantum computing revolution.
The Sun will eventually become a red giant star, swallowing Mercury and Venus in the process. But what will happen to Earth? There are a few existential questions we can ask […]
She was walking down the forest path with a roll of white cloth in her hands. It was trailing behind her like a long veil. It was sweeping needles, leaves […]
Sure, cosmic inflation has its detractors. But it also has something no alternative possesses: predictions and tests. Perhaps the most compelling part of any remarkable story is its origin: how it […]
The closest star to our own doesn’t just host one rocky planet, but a second, larger ‘super-Earth’ much farther out. Of all the stars in the Universe, the closest one to […]
New study figures out how stars produce gamma ray bursts.
A new paper claims that scientists might be wildly mistaken about the density — and therefore, the shape — of our universe.