Astronomy
Flowing Water on Mars Likely Cold and Frosty, Says New Study
A new study from Brown University has offered a possible explanation for how surface water could have flown on Mars…
Messier 58 – the NGC 4579 Barred Spiral Galaxy
Located in the direction of the Virgo constellation, some 68 million light years from Earth, is the barred, spiral galaxy…
Scientists Find Evidence of Extreme Methane Storms On Titan
A recent study by UCLA scientists has shown a link between extreme rainstorms on Titan and surface features detected by…
Astronomers Find the Missing Normal Matter in the Universe, Still Looking for Dark Matter, Though
Two new studies, independently of each other, have managed to fins some of the "missing matter" contained within the Cosmic…
Debris Disks Around Stars Could Point the Way to Giant Exoplanets
A new study by an international team of scientists has found a connection between debris disks and giant planets, which…
Tales of the King: Watch as the Moon Occults Regulus for North America This Weekend
Up early Sunday morning? Or perhaps, as we often do, you're “pulling an all-nighter,” out observing until the break of…
Scientist Find Treasure Trove of Giant Black Hole Pairs
In two new studies by international teams of astrophysicists, a wealth of merging black hole pairs have been discovered, which…
New Clues Emerge for the Existence of Planet 9
In their latest study concerning Planet 9 , astronomers Brown and Batygin offer the first single and coherent description that…
Not an Alien Megastructure, a Cloud of Dust on a 700-Day Orbit
A new study by an international team of researchers has proposed a new theory about Tabby's Star, indicating that it…
New Study Proposes a Giant, Space-Based Solar Flare Shield for Earth
A team of scientists from the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have proposed a bold idea for protecting Earth against…