Astronomy
A Black Hole has been Burping for 100 Million Years
Black holes are gluttonous behemoths that lurk in the center of galaxies. Almost everybody knows that nothing can escape them,…
To Fight Climate Change, We Could Block the Sun. A Lightweight Solar Sail Could Make it Feasible
Can we build an enormous umbrella to dim the Sun? Such a feat would be a megaproject on a scale…
Iconic Earthrise By Artemis 1, Rule-Breaking GRB, SpaceX Launches Starshield
Construction Begins on the Square Kilometer Array. Artemis I’s iconic crescent Earthrise picture. A gamma-ray burst that breaks all the…
This Hellish Planet Orbits its Star Every 18 Hours. How Did it Get There?
Astronomers discovered 55 Cancri e in 2004. That was five years before NASA's Kepler planet-hunting spacecraft was launched, and exoplanet…
A new 3D map of the Milky Way Uses close to 66,000 Stars and Reveals New Details About the Shape of our Galaxy
A new study by a team of Polish astronomers has revealed details about the shape of the Milky Way's center…
Japanese Billionaire Reveals His Round-the-Moon Crew
Four years after announcing that he'd lead an around-the-moon mission aboard SpaceX's Starship spacecraft, Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa has named…
SpaceX Launches ‘Starshield’. A Quiet Announcement With A Huge Potential
SpaceX revealed their new service called Starshield. It is a "secured satellite network for government entities" and is aimed at…
Colliding Neutron Stars can Generate Long Gamma-ray Bursts
Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are the most energetic recurring events in the Universe. Only the Big Bang was more energetic, and…
“Early Dark Energy” Could Explain the Crisis in Cosmology
A new study considers how the presence of Early Dark Energy could help resolve one of the biggest cosmological mysteries…
A Star was Blocking a Galaxy, but Now it’s Moved Enough That Astronomers can Finally Examine What it Was Hiding
One of the biggest puzzles in astronomy, and one of the hardest ones to solve, concerns the formation and evolution…