Category: Space
Black Holes Ring, Physicists Listen Closely
Rendered image showing gravitational waves around a binary neutron star, one of the final stages of it becoming a black hole. Image credit: LIGO/Caltech Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity…
One-third of galaxy’s most common planets could be in habitable zone
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Our familiar, warm, yellow sun is a relative rarity in the Milky Way. By far the most common stars are considerably smaller and cooler, sporting just…
NASA’s UFO task force meets on May 31 and you can watch it live online for free
NASA will hold a historic public meeting on UFOs this week and you can watch it all live online in a free webcast. The agency will hold a meeting of…
Researchers find new exoplanet, potentially covered in volcanoes
An international team of astronomers, including a key researcher from McMaster, has discovered a unique Earth-sized exoplanet that may be carpeted with volcanoes. LP 791-18 d, illustrated here, is an…
Meet the scientist (sort of) spending a year on Mars
A portion of Mars Dune Alpha is seen at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Living on Mars wasn’t exactly a childhood dream for Canadian biologist Kelly Haston, though…
Crash of private Japanese moon lander blamed on software, last-minute location switch
In this photo provided by ispace, engineers and affiliates work on the flight model of the HAKUTO-R Mission 1 Lunar Lander at the IABG Space Test Centre in Ottobrunn, Germany,…
Remarkably small and distant galaxy found in Early Universe
Galaxy is the smallest ever discovered at this distance—around 500 million years after the Big Bang. Supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation and using first-of-their-kind observations from the James Webb Space Telescope,…
Virgin Galactic resumes spaceflights after two year pause
Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo space plane Unity and mothership seen separating above Spaceport America, New Mexico in July 2021 — the company has resumed spaceflights after a nearly two-year hiatus. Virgin…
