A Hot Jupiter With a Comet-Like Tail
About 164 light-years away, a Hot Jupiter orbits its star so closely that it takes fewer than four days to…
NASA Selects New Technology to Help Search for Life on Mars
The day when human beings finally set foot on Mars is rapidly approaching. Right now, NASA, the China National Space…
Gigantic Galaxy Clusters Found Just Before They're Awash in Star Formation
Astronomers have found examples of giant galaxy clusters dozens of times larger than the Milky Way with all the raw…
Why Serious Scientists Are Mesmerized by the Multiverse
The multiverse may be a cool (and convenient) concept for comic books and superhero movies, but why do scientists take…
Shhh, NASA Reveals its New Quiet Supersonic Aircraft
The term space plane conjurs up all sorts of images and NASA, with their new X-59 (even the name sounds…
China Tests an All-Solid Rocket
China has a rich history in rocketry. It’s even found its place into Chinese legends with the wonderful tale of…
Since Interstellar Objects Crashed Into Earth in the Past, Could They Have Brought Life?
On October 19th, 2017, astronomers with the Pan-STARRS survey detected an interstellar object (ISO) passing through our Solar System for…
Black Holes and Neutron Stars are Finally Linked to Supernovae
Everybody knows that the explosive deaths of supermassive stars (called supernovae) lead to the creation of black holes or neutron…
Big Planets Don’t Necessarily Mean Big Moons
Does the size of an exomoon help determine if life could form on an exoplanet it’s orbiting? This is something…
Gravitational Waves Could Show us the First Minute of the Universe
Astronomers routinely explore the universe using different wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum from the familiar visible light to radio waves…