Astronomy
Scientists Create Molecules that can Follow Darwinian Evolution
A team of researchers at the University of Tokyo have discovered a set of RNA molecules that are capable of…
A Pulsar and Star are Orbiting Each Other Every 62 Minutes. The Fastest “Black Widow” Binary Ever Seen
Caption: An illustrated view of a black widow pulsar and its stellar companion. The pulsar’s gamma-ray emissions (magenta) strongly heat…
The Younger the Planet, the More Likely it is to be Habitable
We've discovered thousands of exoplanets and are likely to find many thousands more of them. While the wide variety of…
A Space Telescope Could Reveal a Black Hole's Photon Ring
A new study by an international team of astrophysicists has shown what a space-based interferometry telescope could reveal about supermassive…
Pulsars Could Explain the Excess of Gamma Radiation Coming from the Center of the Milky Way
A gamma-ray view of the sky centered on the core of the Milky Way Galaxy. Could strange spinning neutron stars…
Astronomers Discover Eight Echoes from Black Holes
A black hole in an x-ray binary system pulls material away from its neighbor star and into its accretion disk.…
Humanity Will Need to Survive About 400,000 Years if We Want any Chance of Hearing From an Alien Civilization
If there are so many galaxies, stars, and planets, where are all the aliens, and why haven't we heard from…
China is Building an Asteroid Deflection Mission of its own, due for Launch in 2025
There's an old joke that the dinosaurs are only extinct because they didn't develop a space agency. The implication, of…
Solar Power in a Future Martian Lifestyle
An artist's concept of a future biomanufacturing lab on Mars, powered by photovoltaic (solar power) technology. It will also synthesize…
A New Kind of Stellar Explosion Has Been Discovered: Micronovae
The most energetic explosions in the Universe come from stars called supernovae. These galactic bombs have the energy of about…