Astronomy
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…
LIGO Scientists who Detected Gravitational Waves Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics
For their immeasurable contributions to the discovery of gravitational waves, Caltech professors Kip S. Thorne and Barry C. Barish, and…
Determining the Mass of the Milky Way Using Hypervelocity Stars
Researchers from the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have devised a new way to measure the mass of our galaxy…
Old Mars Odyssey Data Indicates Presence of Ice Around Martian Equator
After re-examining old data from the Mars Odyssey mission, a team of scientists has found evidence for the presence of…
NASA’s Webb Space Telescope Launch Delayed to 2019
The most powerful space telescope ever built will have to wait on the ground for a few more months into…
New Study Says Earth Avoided a “Carbon Overdose” During Formation
A new study has indicated that the depletion of carbon from Earth-forming materials may have been essential to life here…