Astronomy
A New Telescope is Ready to Start Searching for Answers to Explain Dark Energy
Back in 2015, construction began on a new telescope called the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). Later this year, it…
China will begin constructing its space station in 2021
The Chinese space agency is building a brand new space station, and they're going about it in a suitably impressive…
Supermassive Black Holes Grew by Consuming Gas and Entire Stars
Where do they come from, those beguiling singularities that flummox astrophysicists—and the rest of us. Sure, we understand the processes…
Interstellar Oumuamua Was a Dark Hydrogen Iceberg
When Canadian astronomer Robert Weryk discovered `Oumuamua passing through our Solar System with the Pan-STARRS telescope, in October 2017, it…
A New Test Confirms Dark Energy and the Expansion of the Universe
Our measurements of dark energy give contradictory results. A new study confirms dark energy, but suggests it is more strange…
Astronomers Find the Source of the Huge Bubbles of Gas Flowing Out of the Milky Way, Still No Idea What Caused Them
There's an unusual paradox hampering research into parts of the Milky Way. Dense gas blocks observations of the galactic core,…
Spying a Rare ‘Ring of Fire’ Around Venus at Inferior Conjunction
Amazing things happen in the day-to-day sky, often unseen and unwitnessed in our normal routine. Just such a ‘non-event’ happened…
Evidence that Mars Used to Have a Ring
Mars only has two moons: Phobos and Deimos. They're strange, for moons, little more than lumpy, potato-shaped chunks of rock.…
The dinosaur killing asteroid hit the Earth at the most devastating possible angle
There are bad days, and then there are really bad days. 65 million years ago, life on Earth - especially…
About 3.5 Million Years Ago, a Stream of Gas Outside the Milky Way Would Have Lit Up the Night Sky
It's a truism to point out that modern humans have only been around for the blink of an eye, relative…