When his parents first enrolled Jacob Barnett in school they were told to forget it and that their son would never be able to learn anything in school. Naturally concerned they took him to a doctor where they were told that he has...
If we send a crewed spaceship to Mars right now and it lands in a large canyon and starts exploring, they’ll find a massive deposit of water. The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) mission discovered “large volumes of water”...
A team of astronomers has unexpectedly discovered two galaxies that were previously hidden from view at the edge of space and time. Yoshinobu Fudamoto, an astronomer from Waseda University’s Research Institute for Science and...
It’s official. There is water on the Moon. We assumed there was for almost a decade, based on detections announced in 2009, but the wavelengths used left space for interpretation. Scientists announce the first unambiguous...
Scientists just revealed the finding of the most massive black hole ever detected in the early Universe. It weighs 34 billion times as much as our Sun and eats one per day. The research, headed by the National University of Australia...
With a greater focus on asteroids and objects from deep space, as well as the possibility of a collision with Earth, astronomers have arrived for the first time at a planet that may have lost its atmosphere as a result of a collision...
The Andromeda Galaxy is a huge tangle of about a trillion stars that is right next door to the Milky Way. But it will crash into our galaxy billions of years from now. On a clear night away from city lights, if you look toward the...
With a greater focus on asteroids and objects from deep space, as well as the possibility of a collision with Earth, astronomers have arrived for the first time at a planet that may have lost its atmosphere as a result of a collision...
Collisions in the huge disc-shaped cloud of material that also generated the Sun are believed to have formed the Earth some 4.6 billion years ago. Gravity gradually clumped this gas and dust into clumps that produced asteroids and...
Scientists may have discovered a method for people to breathe on Mars in the future. Space travel is difficult for a variety of reasons, but one of the most significant is the absence of oxygen in space. Bacteria might be the solution...
The theory that gave rise to the concept of dark matter arose out of necessity. Our cosmos shouldn’t be able to exist and function as it does base on the stuff we can see – this visible matter couldn’t provide the...
China made History by landing its Change-4 spacecraft on the moon’s far side. The mission was also the first to experiment with growing plants on the moon, and it transported a mini-biosphere dubbed the Lunar Micro Ecosystem...
NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio (SVS) has published a remarkable video that depicts Earth in ways you’ve probably never seen before. The video is a time-lapse model of a category-4 typhoon that formed off the coast...
A peek at the universe’s thousands and thousands of diverse shapes and structures reveal that cosmic variety knows no bounds. This is especially evident in the example of the metallic asteroid Psyche, which has captivated scientists...
Humanity is anticipating a spectacular performance. Two black holes will merge in a galaxy in the constellation Bootes. Scientists ensure that these occurrences will not be disastrous. A tremendous gravitational wave will arrive as...
There are two specific galaxies worth gazing at in the Virgo constellation: the Sombrero Hat galaxy (M104) and M87, which has a jagged shaft of light jutting out of it, and both are Mysterious in their own way. The true mystery of...
A rising number of individuals seem to believe that the earth is, in fact, flat. But it gets better. They also claim that Australia is a fake. According to a popular Facebook rant, the whole country (and, by extension, the 24 million...
The Milky Way galaxy is made up of 200 billion stars and maybe 100 billion planets. Even if just a tiny proportion of those planets maintained life, and even if only a pitiful scattering of those planets had intelligent lifeforms,...
Gliese 710, also known as HIP 89825, is a 0.6 M☉ orange star in the constellation Serpens Cauda. It is expected to pass close to the Sun in approximately 1.29 million years, at a minimum distance of 0.1663 light-years (10,520 astronomical...
Not only have scientists found the very first evidence of a black hole firing a jet at another galaxy, when scientists see jets, they see them in pairs. This black hole has only one. Astronomers discovered a unique black hole spewing...
What sounds more pleasant than a huge space rock flying towards us at 20,000mph? We’ll tell you exactly what – the fact that it’s expected to ‘skim past’ Earth. *Wipes brow* Yes, that’s right – the end may be near but...
