The Red Planet is hiding an appealing secret. Scientists have discovered a world-historic discovery on Mars: “significant amounts of water” are hiding inside the Red Planet’s Valles Marineris, its version of our grand canyon...
Astronomers have discovered a tiny black hole relatively near to Earth. It has been dubbed ‘The Unicorn‘ and has a mass around three times that of the Sun. The smallest black holes to have previously been discovered are at least...
The death of a binary star can be a spectacularly violent thing. This picture shows the binary system R Aquarii, a red giant throwing off its outer envelope, which is being greedily cannibalized by its companion, a much smaller,...
The polar ice caps have fully melted and the water level has risen to more than 5 miles, swallowing practically all of the land, in the post-apocalyptic action movie “Waterworld” from 1995. Unlike any planet in our solar...
A comet that only orbits the sun once every 50,000 years is expected to be visible from Earth with the naked eye. The last time the comet visited, the Sahara desert was wet and fertile, Neanderthals and woolly mammoths still walked...
A group of astronomers has become star-struck at the brightest flash of light that has ever been seen, probably caused by a black hole forming. On October 9, astronomers’ telescopes detected what is now considered to be the...
A powerful, ancient impact created Yarrabubba crater in western Australia, and new research found the strike occurred some 2.2 billion years ago, making the crater the oldest known on Earth. James Thew/iStock/Thinkstock Yarrabubba...
The Whirlpool Galaxy in X-ray and optical light (left). The M51-ULS-1 system is shown on the right as an artist’s concept, with the neutron star or black hole syphoning material from its companion star. The planet is obscuring the...
The human brain is capable of creating structures in up to 11 dimensions, according to scientists. According to a study published in Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, the Human brain can deal and create in up to 11 dimensions. According...
At the moment Warp Drive, the ability to Travel faster than light, is Science fiction even though mathematicians have recently suggested that it is actually possible. Or at least it was Science fiction until the world’s first warp...
The existential notion of Earth-sized inhabitable exoplanets seems to be confronting our conventional understanding of the vast cosmos. However, the observations made by the Kepler spacecraft infer that one out of every five sun-like...
Astronomers have revealed the discovery of a Super-Earth orbiting a faint red dwarf within the star’s habitable zone. The distant world is believed to have 4 times the mass of Earth. To date, researchers have discovered 5,035 distant...
The celestial phenomenon is coming from a galaxy located 12.7 billion light-years away from Earth. The Chandra space telescope discovered the most distant X-ray jet of a quasar to date – it existed at a time when the universe was...
The discovery of a completely new mineral this week by the precious stone mining company Shefa Yamim in northern Israel has both geologists and the general public in awe. Carmeltazite, often known as “Carmel Sapphire,” may be...
The South Pole-Aitken Basin, which is on the far side of our Moon, is one of the biggest intact craters in the Solar System. Numerous orbiters, including the Chinese lander Chang’e-4, and other spacecraft are examining the region,...
Previous studies have shown that the Moon was heavily bombarded by asteroids about 3.9 billion years ago. However, the origin of these celestial bodies remained a mystery until recently. Planetologists from the University of Münster...
Something came out of galaxy M87 moving faster than the speed of light. Or at least that’s what it looked like. Indeed, the Hubble Space Telescope has shown that it is almost five times faster. This feat was initially detected...
The very same star system was picked by scientists back in 2017 to send an intergalactic message to, in hopes that an alien civilization inhabiting one of the planets would receive and decipher the message. Astronomers have identified...
Scientists should really focus their research efforts on similar old planetary systems of this kind. Scientists from the United States have reported the discovery of a rocky super-earth that formed in an old planetary system around...
Back in 1976, the late Carl Sagan sat down on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson to talk about a new form of space propulsion called solar sailing. Four decades later, and The Planetary Society has officially demonstrated this “tremendously...
A gigantic asteroid with a surface area four times bigger than the UK has drawn close enough to our planet that it’s now visible without a telescope. The space rock 4 Vesta, which is the fourth largest known asteroid in the solar...
