Scientists detect the most distant flash of radio waves
Imagine you're outside on a clear night, looking up at the stars. Now imagine one of those stars blinking at you super-fast, like the...
Dancing black holes: Scientists suggest they might exist in pairs!
Black holes are like the vacuum cleaners of the universe.
Imagine a super-strong whirlpool that pulls everything into it, even light!
Now, scientists think there might...
Astronomers find “ultra-fast radio bursts” lasting millionths of a second
A recent study published in Nature Astronomy examines the discovery of what astronomers are dubbing “ultra-fast radio bursts”, a new type of fast radio...
Scientists discover tiny quartz crystals on a distant gas giant!
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, or simply Webb, has made an astonishing discovery! On a massive, faraway planet named WASP-17 b, scientists have found...
A Russian satellite has shifted within 60 km of another spacecraft
When it comes to saber-rattling, few countries employ it as much as Russia does.
During their ongoing invasion and occupation of Ukraine, the country’s leadership...
Do red dwarfs or sunlike stars have more earth-sized worlds
Earth is our only example of a habitable planet, so it makes sense to search for Earth-size worlds when we’re hunting for potentially-habitable exoplanets.
When...
A solar radio eclipse ring of fire
On October 14, as most Californians were treated to a partial solar eclipse (see bottom right "visible" image showing the sun's crescent peeking out...
There are 14,000 potentially hazardous city-killing asteroids left to find
Everyone likes a cool infographic, right?
Does that statement hold even if the infographic points out a gap in our knowledge that could kill millions...
Scientists discover a super-hot exoplanet that has quartz clouds
A recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters used data obtained by the James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) to identify...
Protostars can siphon material from far away, says study
When stars are born, they do it inside a molecular cloud.
Astronomers long assumed that the "crèche" supplied all the nutrients that protostars needed to...