You Thought Black Hole Event Horizons Looked Strange. Check out Binary Black Hole Event Horizons
Binary black holes lens light so strongly it's difficult to simulate how they would appear. A new simulation shows us…
Astronauts Will Soon be Getting a Space Fridge, Keeping Everything Cold in Zero-G
One of the least known of NASA’s funding mechanisms is the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. This program, required…
Biden Administration is Looking for a 6.3% Increase in NASA’s Budget for 2022
Space research, like much else in capitalist societies, is driven by funding. The biggest source of that funding for that…
Citizen Scientists Discover a new Feature in Star Formation: “Yellowballs”
AI is often touted as being particularly good at finding patterns amongst reams of data. But humans also are extremely…
Ground-Based Lasers Could Push Space Debris off Collision-Course Orbits
Researchers at the Australian National University (ANU) are finding new uses for the laser-based technology that sharpens telescope imagery –…
If you Want to Move an Asteroid, you Need the Right Kind of Nuclear Explosion
A new collaborative study has shown that nuclear explosions could be used to deflect asteroids, protecting Earth from cataclysmic impacts.
Finding Oxygen on an Alien World Doesn't Always Mean There's Life There
Oxygen could indicate presence of life on another world, but for red dwarf planets finding oxygen isn't enough.
100-meter Asteroid Created a Strange Impact Event in Antarctica 430,000 Years Ago
The effects of ancient asteroid impacts on Earth are still evident from the variety of impact craters across our planet.…
Galileo Sunspot Sketches Versus Modern ‘Deep Learning’ AI
A new study turns modern 'deep learning' techniques on Galileo's early sketches of the Sun.
Earth Gains 5,200 Tons of Dust From Space Every Year
Whenever I wipe the dust off my coffee table or catch a glimpse of dust motes floating in sunlight, my…