Dark energy — a mysterious force pushing the universe apart at an ever-increasing rate — was discovered 26 years ago, and ever since, scientists have been searching for a new…
Category: Astronomy
Telltale greenhouse gases could signal alien activity
If aliens modified a planet in their solar system to make it warmer, we could tell. A new UC Riverside study identifies the artificial greenhouse gases that would be giveaways…
Frosty volcanoes discovered in Mars’s tropics
The frost sits atop the Tharsis volcanoes: the tallest volcanoes not only on Mars but in the Solar System. It was first seen by ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), and…
Can’t stop won’t stop: Solar Orbiter shows the Sun raging on
The hyperactive sunspot region responsible for the beautiful auroras earlier in May was still alive and kicking when it rotated away from Earth’s view. Watching from the other side of…
First of Its Kind Detection Made in Striking New Webb Image
For the first time, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) has captured a phenomenon astronomers have long hoped to image directly. In this stunning image of the Serpens…
A black hole of inexplicable mass
The black hole already weighed a billion solar masses when the universe was still in its infancy. The James Webb Space Telescope observed a galaxy in a young universe stage.…
This impossibly massive black hole wasn’t very hungry during the dawn of time
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have spotted a supermassive black hole at “cosmic dawn” that seems to be impossibly massive. The confusion comes from the fact that…
Will Boeing Starliner issues delay its 1st long-duration astronaut flight?
While NASA and Boeing are focused on finishing the first astronaut mission aboard the Starliner spacecraft early next month, what happens next is already on everyone’s mind. Boeing’s Starliner capsule…
Planet Nine: Is the search for this elusive world nearly over?
Deep in the outer reaches of the solar system — so far away from the known planets that the sun would barely be distinguishable from a nearby star — a…
New ‘Star Wars Outlaws’ gameplay trailer dives into the galactic underworld (video)
Last year’s Star Wars Jedi: Survivor was easily one of the best Star Wars games of all time, and yet, fans have been itching for a full-blown open-world game set…
