The Milky Way is Already Starting to Digest the Magellanic Clouds, Starting With Their Protective Halos of Hot Gas
Massive galaxies like our Milky Way gain mass by absorbing smaller galaxies. The Large Magellanic Cloud and the Small Magellanic…
Extreme galaxies depend on extreme conditions for their formation
Some galaxies are too small, and some galaxies are too big, while others are just right. A new survey of…
A beautiful picture of Saturn’s heavily-cratered moon Mimas, processed by @kevinmgill
The Cassini mission to Saturn took many images of Mimas, one of the smallest moons in the solar system. And…
The SpaceX Starship Could be Making its Biggest Hop Yet (and a Belly-Flop) Next Month!
Elon Musk and SpaceX appear to be gearing up for a high-altitude hop test with the SN8 before the end…
Did Scientists Just Find Signs of Life on Venus?
A team of scientists has just published a paper announcing their discovery of a peculiar chemical in the cloudtops of…
Small Amounts of Dark Matter are Creating Much Stronger Gravitational Distortions than Anyone Expected to See
Dark matter is much more clumpy than we thought, which means some dark matter might be very cold.
Australian Telescope Just Scanned 10 million Stars For Any Sign of Extraterrestrial Signals. No sign.
One of the most important results of science is the negative result. If something doesn’t work or a hypothesis is…
An Update on the Damage to the Arecibo Observatory
The Arecibo Observatory suffered some serious damage last month, but an assessment and investigation is underway and repairs will follow!
China’s New Reusable Spaceplane Lands After 2 Days in Space
China's mysterious reusable spaceplane recently launched and has returned to Earth after spending two days in space.
Beyond “Fermi’s Paradox” IX: What is the Brief Window Hypothesis?
In this latest installment in our Fermi series, we take a look at the possibility that advanced civilizations only have…