Astronomy
Hubble Examines Earth’s Reflection as an ‘Exoplanet’ During a Lunar Eclipse
What would we look for in a distant exoplanet in the hunt for Earth-like worlds, and perhaps life? A recent…
Astronomers Think They’ve Found the Neutron Star Remnant From Supernova 1987a
Recent observations and theortetical work have brought us one step closer to resolving the mystery of what lies at the…
A magnetar has been discovered throwing off bizarre blasts of radiation. Is this where fast radio bursts come from?
Magnetars are the ultimate aggressive star: intense magnetic fields, massive outbursts, the works. We've known that magnetars are capable of…
Asteroids Somehow Migrated Past Jupiter During the Solar System’s Early History
In baseball, players receive a Gold Glove award if they show outstanding fielding play throughout the course of the season. …
Neutron stars of different masses can make a real mess when they collide
When neutron stars collide, they go out with a tremendous bang, fueling an explosion up to a thousand times more…
A Globular Cluster was Completely Dismantled and Turned Into a Ring Around the Milky Way
An international team of astronomers discovered some surprising when studying a debris ring around our Milky Way: the remnants of…
Newly forming star has spiral arms like a tiny galaxy
Protoplanetary disks - where young stars are forming their families of planets - usually form concentric rings of gaps. But…
Mira-type variable stars are constantly throwing the key chemicals for life out into space
We know that the carbon in your bones was formed long ago in the heart of a star. But how…
This is What the Solar System Really Looks Like
At first glance, it looks like something from an alien autopsy. A strange organ cut from a xenomorph's thorax, under…
Beyond “Fermi’s Paradox” V: What is the Aestivation Hypothesis?
Is it possible that the aliens are not hiding, but sleeping and waiting for the Universe to get better?