Mark Thompson

IceCube Just Spent 10 Years Searching for Dark Matter

Neutrinos are tricky little blighters that are hard to observe. The IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica was built to detect…

22 hours ago

Star Devouring Black Hole Spotted by Astronomers

A team of astronomers have detected a surprisingly fast and bright burst of energy from a galaxy 500 million light…

1 day ago

Drone Test Flights Are Being Tested for Flights on Alien Worlds

We’ve already seen the success of the Ingenuity probe on Mars. The first aircraft to fly on another world set…

3 days ago

One of the Most Interesting Exoplanets Just Got Even More Interesting!

Since the discovery of the first exoplanet in 1992, thousands more have been discovered. 40 light years away, one such…

3 days ago

Another Clue About the Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays: Magnetic Turbulence

Space largely seems quite empty! Yet even in the dark voids of the cosmos, ultra-high-energy cosmic rays are streaming through…

1 week ago

NASA Thinks it Knows Why Ingenuity Crashed on Mars

NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter sent its final signals to Earth in the earlier part of the year. Engineers have been studying…

1 week ago

Zap! A Black Hole Scores a Direct Hit With its Jet

Most galaxies are thought to play host to black holes. At the center of Centaurus A, a galaxy 12 million…

1 week ago

An Interstellar Visitor Helped Shape the Orbits of the Planets.

The orbits of the planets around the Sun have been the source for many a scientific debate. Their current orbital…

2 weeks ago

New Technique for Spotting Dyson Rings Unveiled.

Dyson spheres and rings have always held a special fascination for me. The concept is simple, build a great big…

2 weeks ago

Has the Universe Been Designed to Support Life? Now We Have a Way to Test it!

The anthropic principle states that the fundamental parameters of the Universe such as the strength of the fundamental forces, have…

2 weeks ago