Astronomy
An Exoplanet So Hot There Are 7 Different Kinds of Gaseous Metals in its Atmosphere
The search for exoplanets has revealed types of planets that are nothing like the worlds in our own Solar System.…
Comet P1 NEOWISE Makes a Brief Late October Appearance
The Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) caught another intriguing object on August 2, 2020 as part of its…
How to See What’s on the Other Side of a Wormhole Without Actually Traveling Through it
Wormholes are incredibly fascinating objects, but also completely hypothetical. We simply don't know if they can truly exist in our…
Black Holes Make Complex Gravitational-Wave Chirps as They Merge
When black holes collide, they emit chirps of gravitational waves even after they have merged.
Want the Fastest Solar Sail? Drop it Into the Sun First
A new study from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy shows how a "Sun Diver," a light sail that dives…
Radio Astronomers are Worried About Mega-Constellations and the Square Kilometer Array
With all the satellite constellations heading to space in the near future, there are concerns they will interfere with radio…
Just How Bad are Superflares to a Planet’s Habitability?
Star's can be full of surprises; some of them nasty. While our own Sun appears pretty placid, science has shown…
Matter makes up exactly 31.5±1.3% of the Universe
Weighing the universe is a tricky task, but a team of astronomers have used a clever technique to measure how…
An Amazing Sky Mosaic Courtesy of Stellina…and a New Telescope from Vaonis
Check out this stunning new deep-sky panoramic and new light-weight ‘smartscope,’ courtesy of Vaonis.
The Solar System has a second plane where objects orbit the Sun
Almost all the objects orbiting the sun live in a particular plane, called the ecliptic plane. But a recent analysis…