This Giant Slingshot Has Just Flung a NASA Payload Into Suborbit Without Using a Rocket
A totally new way of getting things into space. Image credit: SpinLaunch US-based startup SpinLaunch has just launched some scientific equipment iRead More…
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Physicists Have Finally Cracked Stephen Hawking’s Famous Black Hole Paradox
So theorists have been busy trying to find ways to make the laws that tell space and time how to curve mesh with the laws that tell particles how to Read More…
Astronomers just found 1 million new galaxies, previously unknown to astronomy, in just 300 hours
Astronomers in Australia have just mapped 83% of the observable universe, in just 300 hours. This new sky survey, which Australia’s national sciencRead More…
Webb Space Telescope Reveals “Stirred Up” Secrets of Breathtaking Planetary Nebula
Researchers reconstructed the scene, finding up to three unseen stellar companions that may have shaped the planetary nebula’s layers of gas and dusRead More…
A Woman Has Won the ‘Nobel Prize of Math’ for the First Time Ever
For the first time, one of the world’s most prestigious mathematics prizes was given to a woman. Karen Uhlenbeck, an emeritus professRead More…
For the first time: Hubble finds water on Jupiter’s moon Ganymede
For the first time, astronomers have uncovered evidence of water vapor in the atmosphere of Jupiter’s moon Ganymede. This water vapor forms when ice fRead More…
The Hubble telescope captures a black hole that forms stars instead of absorbing them
Often portrayed as destructive monsters that hold light captive, black holes take on a less villainous role in the latest research from NASA’s Hubble Read More…
Car-Sized Prehistoric Turtle Species Discovered in Spain – It’s One of the Largest Marine Turtles to Have Ever Lived
Paleontologists in Spain unearthed a new prehistoric sea turtle species which they believe to be among the largest ever. An illustrated reconRead More…
This Alien Creature Found on Antarctica Has a Weird Glittering Golden Mane Making It Look Like Luxury Stuff
This unusual, 8-inch long marine worm looks like something out of a nightmare — a luxury nightmare, for that matter. In the vast SoRead More…
Some black hole mergers happen in chaotic star cluster ‘carnivals’
Some black hole collisions may occur in densely packed, “carnival-like” star clusters, scientists have discovered. The finding hints at what binary blRead More…