May’s full moon comes with supermoon eclipse
As we approach month’s end, there is not one, not two, but three celestial events happening with our Moon!
The Moon will be located on...
This week’s super blood moon to get the heart pumping
If you cast your eyes to the skies this Wednesday night you're in for a celestial surprise - a rare Super Blood Moon.
Technically a...
How are solar systems born?
Many of us remember those school-room models of our Solar System, with tiny wooden planets rotating at the ends of their wires around a...
Rare 4000 year comets can cause meteor showers on Earth
Comets that circle the Sun in very elongated orbits spread their debris so thin along their orbit or eject it out of the solar...
Scientists find the most ancient galaxy with spiral morphology
Analyzing data obtained with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), researchers found a galaxy with a spiral morphology by only 1.4 billion years after...
Scientists find heavy metal vapors in the atmospheres of comets
A new study by a Belgian team using data from the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) has shown that iron and...
Alien radioactive element found on Earth prompts creation rethink
The first-ever discovery of an extraterrestrial radioactive isotope on Earth has scientists rethinking the origins of the elements on our planet.
The tiny traces of...
Supermassive black holes devour gas just like their petite counterparts
On Sept. 9, 2018, astronomers spotted a flash from a galaxy 860 million light years away.
The source was a supermassive black hole about 50...
Scientists find new evidence of when and how our early Milky Way came together
New research provides the best evidence to date into the timing of how our early Milky Way came together, including the merger with a...
Waves shed light on mysterious ‘mixing’ inside massive stars
Astronomers commonly refer to massive stars as the chemical factories of the universe.
They generally end their lives in spectacular supernovae, events that forge many...