The race is on to provide high speed satellite internet to the Earth’s most remote areas. New tech companies such as Starlink, One Web, and Amazon’s Kuiper are competing with…
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Aliens could soon detect life on Earth
New research suggests that aliens on nearby stars could detect Earth through radio signals leaked from the planet. Radiotelescope – illustrative photo. Image credit: Brenton Pearce via Unsplash, free license…
Astronomers claim to have solved mystery of the runaway supermassive black hole
Above: Image of the object observed with the Hubble Space Telescope. It shows the emission in the ultraviolet part of the spectrum. Middle: Ultraviolet image of a local galaxy without…
Mysterious Origins of Martian Meteorites
In August 1865, a 10-pound Martian rock fell from space to Earth, landing with a bang in the remote village of Sherghati, India. After being recovered by witnesses to the…
Virgin to launch commercial spaceflights in June
The Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo space plane Unity and mothership after taking off from New Mexico in July 2021. Space tourism company Virgin Galactic announced Monday that it is resuming flights…
The Bizarre Behavior of Black Holes
A Cosmic Chirp Many black holes are found in pairs that orbit each other like ice dancers. Eventually they collide, merge, and coalesce into one giant body. The National Science…
Star swallowing a planet observed for the first time
As a star runs out of fuel, it will billow out to a million times its original size, engulfing any matter — and planets — in its wake. Scientists have…
Hubble Follows Sneaky Shadow Play Around Planet-Forming Disk
The young star TW Hydrae is playing “shadow puppets” around the planet-forming disk with scientists observing it with NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. In 2017, astronomers reported discovering a shadow sweeping across…
New Study of Uranus’ Large Moons Shows 4 May Hold Water
The new modeling explores how oceans could exist in unlikely places in our solar system, such as distant moons around other planets. Uranus is surrounded by its four major rings…
Star swallows planet in one big gulp
This illustration provided Caltech/IPAC by depicts a planet skimming the surface of its star. Astronomers reported their observations Wednesday, May 3, 2023, of what appears to be a gas giant…
