Could There Be Life in the Cloudtops of Venus?
When it comes to places with the potential for habitability, Venus isn’t usually considered on that list. The hot, greenhouse-effect-gone-mad…
NASA’s New Video Shows You What it’s Like Traveling Close to the Speed of Light
NASA has just released an informative video that lets potential interstellar travellers know what they're in for!
First Laser Space Debris Detection Made… in Daylight
A new technique may prove to be a powerful tool in the battle to mitigate space debris.
The Sun Might Have Once Had a Binary Companion Star
A new study from the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has bolstered the case for our Sun having a long-lost…
Could a tabletop experiment detect gravitational waves and determine the quantum nature of gravity?
A tabletop gravitational wave detector could take decades to build, but it could answer the most fundamental questions in physics.
This Distorted Circle is Actually a Galaxy That Looked Very Similar to the Milky Way, Shortly After the Big Bang
Using ALMA, a European team of astronomers was able to observe a galaxy as it looked 12 billion years ago…
Remembering Don Arabian, the ‘Mad Genius’ Behind NASA’s Apollo Engineering Team
One of the truly unsung heroes of the Apollo program has passed away at age 95. Donald D. Arabian, Chief…
Machine Learning Just Classified Over Half a Million Galaxies
Humanity is still a long way away from a fully artificial intelligence system. For now at least, AI is particularly…
Some Astronomers Think Betelgeuse Dimmed Because it “Sneezed”. And it Might be Getting Ready to do it Again
An international team of researchers has proposed a new explanation for why Betelgeuse has been mysteriously dimming, just as it…
The Last Supernovae
The last supernova in history will be the final burst of light in a cold, dark, and dead cosmos.