Showing posts from April, 2018
A new research has pinpointed a nursery of young stars some 2.4 billion light years away as the cause of strange fast radio bursts detected on Earth. These fast radio bursts - which each lived just a few milliseconds - come from thick neutron stars…
When someone mentions "different dimensions," we tend to think of things like parallel universes – alternate realities that exist parallel to our own, but where things work or happened differently. However, the reality of dimensions and …
We've said it before, but we'll say it again: we laughed when we heard Luxembourg said it was aiming to become the asteroid mining capital of the world. Now it's not so funny, especially since China's newly released 'roadmap…
Image Credit: NASA Take a look into the sky with or without a telescope and you will see stars, galaxies, planets, comets, asteroids; all those things just make 4 percent of the universe. According to the current model of cosmol…
Black Holes are the one of the most fascinating objects so far discovered in the universe. To understand how a black hole forms and works is a quite difficult scenario. Black holes so far discovered are stellar mass black holes and the formation of…
Artist's illustration of Jupiter's Atmosphere All good things must come to an end, and Juno— NASA's $1-billion mission to study Jupiter like never before — is no exception. The probe launched from Earth in August 2011, reached Jup…
An ancient natural nuclear reactor that was churning away nearly 2 billion years ago sounds like a made-up myth. Perhaps it's because the word reactor suggests a manmade structure. Instead, the reactor is an area of natural uranium inside the …
Peering billions of light-years back to when the Universe was just 10 percent of its current age, astronomers have spotted a colossal pile-up: 14 young, starbursting galaxies merging into one of the most massive structures in the Universe. Using …
Solar panels are generally useless in rainy weather. But researchers in China have found an ingenious solution: They've developed solar panels that can harness the motion of raindrops for energy. It could revolutionize the solar industry. One…
The European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft team has dropped its long-awaited trove of data about 1.7 billion stars. You can see a new visualization of all those stars in the Milky Way and nearby galaxies above, but you really need to zoom in …
Last year, Kip S. Thorne collected a Nobel Prize (along with Rainer Weiss and Barry C. Barish) for his work on gravitational waves. Now, Thorne may have made a new breakthrough: a theoretical method for traveling through time. It involves black h…
SpaceX, Mars One and NASA. These are the three organizations which have bold plans to be the first to colonize Mars in the next few decades. To astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, those plans aren’t just bold. They’re foolhardy and ill-advised.…
