Astronomers Defy the Zone of Avoidance to Find Hundreds of New Galaxies
The Zone of Avoidance is a region of the sky that's obscured by the disk of the Milky Way. The…
An Otherworldly Cloud Over New Zealand
Filmmakers love New Zealand. Its landscapes evoke other worlds, which explains why so much of The Lord of the Rings…
Early Black Holes Fed 40x Faster than Should Be Possible
The theory goes that black holes accrete material, often from nearby stars. However the theory also suggests there is a…
A Spider Stellar Engine Could Move Binary Stars Halfway Across a Galaxy
Eventually, every stellar civilization will have to migrate to a different star. The habitable zone around all stars changes as…
Scaling Propellant Production on Mars is Hard
Putting humans on Mars has been one of NASA's driving missions for years, but they are still in the early…
Is an ‘Off-Year’ Leonid Outburst in the Cards For November?
There are good reasons to keep an eye on the Leonid meteors this year.
Reaction Engines Goes Into Bankruptcy, Taking the Hypersonic SABRE Engine With it
Rarely does something get developed which is a real game changer in space exploration. One example is the Skylon reusable…
Project Hyperion is Seeking Ideas for Building Humanity’s First Generation Ship
The dream of traversing the depths of space and planting the seed of human civilization on another planet has existed…
How Did Supermassive Black Holes Get So Big, So Early? They Might Have Had a Head Start
Supermassive Black Holes (SMBHs) can have billions of solar masses, and observational evidence suggests that all large galaxies have one…
A Mission to Triton and Neptune Would Unlock Their Mysteries
A town in the Austrian Alps might not seem like the most conducive place to come up with daring space…