Voyager 1 is forced to rely on its low power radio
Voyager 1 was launched waaaaaay back in 1977. I would have been 4 years old then!
It’s an incredible achievement that technology that was built...
Will advanced civilizations build habitable planets or Dyson spheres
If there are alien civilizations in the Universe, some of them could be super advanced.
So advanced that they can rip apart planets and create...
Scientists discover surprisingly smooth disk around Vega, hinting at unique planetary system
In the movie Contact (1997), a scientist travels to the star Vega and finds herself surrounded by a cloud of debris, a scene that...
It all started with a Big Bang: The quest to unravel the mystery behind...
How did everything begin?
It's a question that humans have pondered for thousands of years. Over the last century or so, science has homed in...
Webb Telescope reveals a steam world planet orbiting a red dwarf
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has found an exoplanet unlike any other.
This unique world has an atmosphere almost entirely composed of water vapour.
Astronomers...
New 3D-printed metal alloy could power the next generation of spacecraft
A team of researchers has developed a high-performance, 3D-printed metal alloy designed for the extreme conditions of space.
This new alloy is built to withstand...
Tiny fragments of a 4-billion-year-old asteroid reveal its history
In June 2018, Japan’s Hayabusa 2 mission reached asteroid 162173 Ryugu.
It studied the asteroid for about 15 months, deploying small rovers and a lander,...
Astronomers have found the fastest spinning neutron star
Neutron stars are as dense as the nucleus of an atom. They contain a star’s worth of matter in a sphere only a dozen...
Uranus’ moon Miranda may have a hidden ocean, study finds
A recent study suggests that Uranus' small moon Miranda may have a hidden ocean beneath its icy surface, challenging what scientists once thought about...
Astronomers discover potential new building block of organic matter in interstellar space
Carbon is the building block for all life on Earth and accounts for approximately 45–50% of all dry biomass.
When bonded with elements like hydrogen,...