FOOTAGE of an icy Martian canyon – understood to be a likely source of water for…
Category: Physics
Hubble just snapped one of its greatest images ever
The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a distant galaxy called NGC 2775 that sits…
Jupiter Just Sprouted a Brand New Spot
An amateur astronomer in South Africa has detected a bright new surface feature rising above the…
Nuclear ‘Power Balls’ May Make Meltdowns a Thing of the Past
The basic idea behind all nuclear power plants is the same: convert the heat created by…
Crystal structure discovered almost 200 years ago could hold key to solar cell revolution
Solar energy researchers at Oregon State University are shining their scientific spotlight on materials with a…
Tabletop quantum experiment could detect gravitational waves
Predicted by Einstein’s general theory of relativity, gravitational waves are ripples in space-time generated by certain…
The fastest-growing black hole in the universe devours the equivalent of one sun every damn day
A study published yesterday in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society for the first…
Theorists calculate upper limit for possible quantization of time
A trio of theoretical physicists at the Pennsylvania State University has calculated the upper limit for…
Japanese Dark Matter Detector is Seeing a “Surprising Excess of Events” – Universe Today
A search for dark matter has found an extra signal in their data that could point…
So that’s where all the exomoons are hiding, at least according to their shadows
Moons seem to be everywhere these days. There should be fresh boot prints on our own…
CERN experiment makes first observation of rare events producing three massive force carriers
Modern physics knows a great deal about how the universe works, from the grand scale of…
NASA says the SpaceX Crew Dragon module parked at the ISS is generating way more power than expected
So far, NASA seems pleased. Read more at Futurism…
Tiny pendulum may reveal gravity’s secrets
Gravity and quantum mechanics may influence each other as tiny pendulum swings. Read more at Ars…
A supermassive black hole lit up a collision of two smaller black holes
First detected in may 2019 and dubbed s190521g, merger happened about 4 billion light-years away. With…
Drain brain: Nasa offers prize money for best lunar loo design
Agency hopes to attract novel solutions for its Artemis mission to the moon in 2024. Read…
Black holes may merge with light of a trillion suns, scientists say
First optical observation made of phenomenon previously thought to occur in darkness Read more at the…
Satellites documented COVID-19’s impact from space
A new dashboard monitors the pandemic’s economic and environmental effects. Read more at The Verge…
A Black Hole Collided With Something That Shouldn’t Exist
Astronomers are puzzling over observations that show a black hole smashing into a mystery object of…
The Moon Is Lopsided, And New Research Could Finally Explain Why
The Moon may be Earth’s closest cosmic neighbour – and the only extraterrestrial body humans have…
Researchers verify ‘extremely odd’ black hole physics
A team at the University of Glasgow set out to validate British physicist Roger Penrose’s 1969…