Megan Williamson, Author at Different Impulse

July 22, 2019 Technology

5 of the best virtual reality headsets money can buy in 2019

Virtual reality is no longer the future. It is the present, and those who have still not embraced this gift

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July 2, 2019 Science

NASA picks a dozen science and tech projects to bring to the surface of the Moon

With the Artemis mission scheduled to put boots on lunar regolith as soon as 2024, NASA has a lot of

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In this artist's concept, the interstellar object 'Oumuamua is depicted as a cigar-shaped body. A new analysis strongly suggests that 'Oumuamua has a natural origin and is not an alien spacecraft.

July 1, 2019 Science

‘Oumuamua is not an alien spacecraft: study

On October 19, 2017, astronomers discovered the first known interstellar object to visit our solar system. First spotted by the

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An artist's impression of an Earth-sized exoplanet

May 24, 2019 Science

New algorithm digs up 18 Earth-like exoplanets from old Kepler data

So far almost 4,000 planets have been discovered orbiting stars other than the Sun, and that tally is constantly growing.

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May 23, 2019 Virtual Reality

Oculus Quest and Rift S headsets are both now available starting at $399

The Vive Pro is still the best VR headset to buy if you have deep pockets, but if you’re not

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Gaia's all-sky-view, showing the clear center of the Milky Way and the galactic disc

May 14, 2019 Science

“Stellar baby boom” may have given birth to half the Milky Way’s stars

About a year ago, the European Space Agency (ESA) released the Gaia galactic census that detailed the position, distance and

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Computer simulation of the formation of a proto-cluster of galaxies. Supermassive black holes may have had an important role in the formation of these structures in the early Universe.

May 13, 2019 Science

Forecasting the hunt for the first supermassive black holes

It is believed that the formation and growth of most galaxies across the history of the universe has been fueled

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Artist's conception of HD 21749c, the first Earth-sized planet found by NASA's Transiting Exoplanets Survey Satellite (TESS), as well as its sibling, HD 21749b, a warm sub-Neptune-sized world.

April 15, 2019 Science

TESS finds its first Earth-sized planet

A nearby system hosts the first Earth-sized planet discovered by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanets Survey Satellite, as well as a warm

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April 8, 2019 Science

Now We Know That Dark Matter Isn’t Primordial Black Holes

For over fifty years, scientists have theorized that roughly 85% of matter in the Universe’s is made up of a

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The Compact Muon Solenoid detector is a general-purpose detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland, designed to observe any new physics phenomena that the LHC might reveal.

January 30, 2019 Science

International team of physicists continues search for new physics

Dark matter, which is thought to account for nearly a quarter of matter in the universe (but has yet to

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An artist's rendering of the quasar J043947.08+163415.7, the brightest known quasar with the luminosity of 600 trillion Suns

January 15, 2019 Science

Brightest quasar ever found shines with the intensity of 600 trillion Suns

From our point of view here on Earth, the brightest object in the sky is unquestionably the Sun. But this

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This artist's impression shows hot gas orbiting in a disk around a rapidly-spinning black hole. The elongated spot depicts an X-ray-bright region in the disk, which allows the spin of the black hole to be estimated.

January 10, 2019 Science

X-ray pulse detected near event horizon as black hole devours star

On Nov. 22, 2014, astronomers spotted a rare event in the night sky: A supermassive black hole at the center

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