New research motivated by string theory suggests possible, and equally strange, fates for evaporating black holes.…
Category: Space
“Chance of Impact 100%” – Fifth Asteroid Ever Discovered Before Impact
Most asteroids that have impacted Earth were discovered many years, often many millions of years, after…
A Dead Rocket Just Crashed Into the Moon, and Scientists Are Thrilled
The impact likely obliterated the chunk of space junk in a white hot explosion. Read more…
Webb Telescope reaches major milestone: All its light is in one place
A single dot means we’re nearly halfway through focusing the telescope. Read more at Ars Technica…
Breaking Cosmology: Too Many Disk Galaxies – “A Significant Discrepancy Between Prediction and Reality”
A study by the University of Bonn: Observations fit poorly with the Standard Model of Cosmology.…
For The First Time, a Lone Black Hole Has Been Found Wandering The Milky Way
Like an ancient cardigan, the Milky Way should be absolutely riddled with black holes. Read more…
A strange object in space is blasting out radio waves every 18 minutes
Something extraordinarily bright in space is pulsing far slower than most similar cosmic objects, and it…
BOOM! A New Kind of Supernova Has Been Discovered
We often think of supernova explosions as inevitable for large stars. Big star runs out of…
Unknown objects at the heart of Milky Way are sending Earth signals
Researchers detected radio waves coming from objects at the center of the Milky Way, and then…
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Drilled Holes Into Mars, And Found Something Very Strange
As it’s the foundation for all life on Earth, discovering carbon on other planets always gets…
Record-breaking supernova manages to “X-ray” the entire Universe
The first supernova ever discovered through its X-rays has an enormously powerful engine at its core.…
NASA Says Space Debris Will Definitely Slam Into the James Webb Space Telescope
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is officially fully deployed, but it’s not out of the woods…
The Solar System Exists Inside a Giant, Mysterious Void, And We Finally Know Why
The Solar System floats in the middle of a peculiarly empty region of space. Read more…
The James Webb Space Telescope’s Orbit Is Gonna Be Absolutely Deranged
In an animation, the James Webb Space Telescope is doing a seemingly chaotic loop-de-loop across the…
The largest suite of cosmic simulations for AI training, free to download, already spurring discoveries
Totaling 4,233 universe simulations, millions of galaxies and 350 terabytes of data, a new release from…
MIT Scientists Say Life May Have Been Detected on Venus After All
MIT scientists say sulfuric acid in the clouds of Venus could be neutralized by the presence…
Organic molecules revealed on Mars by Curiosity’s new kind of experiment
An international team of space researchers working with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center has found previously…
Object flying at 26,000 mph through our Solar System spotted
Astronomers observed an object flying through our Solar System at 26,000 mph, and it’s stretching our…
The Most Monstrous Comet Ever Known Is Headed Straight for Us
Bernardinelli-Bernstein is thousands of times more massive than an average comet. Its close approach is a…
We Now Know Why There Are Dead Galaxies Floating Lost in The Void of Space
Ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) are something of a mystery for astronomers. Read more at ScienceAlert…