Astronomers have spotted a mysterious "ghost" galaxy orbiting the Milky Way. Huge but extremely faint, the oddball galaxy has been named Antlia 2, and it might just be weird enough to force us to rethink what we know about galactic physics and dark matter.Ant 2, as it's also known, is
Author: Megan Williamson
Flat-Earthers Have A Hilarious New Theory And It’s Exactly As Ridiculous As You Would Expect
The origin story of Earth is a tale of God-like cosmic forces and geological timespans so colossal they are almost unimaginable to our puny brains. According to flat-Earthers, the results of this mysterious astronomical inception might look a lot like a fried doughy piece of confectionary.Abandon all scientific reasoning for
Astronomers found a black hole rotating so fast it’s sucking up space itself
Scientists transform sunlight into a liquid fuel that can be stored for 18 years
It's hard to believe that we still use climate change-inducing fossil fuels when we have a sun that's bombarding our planet with plentiful, clean renewable energy on a daily basis. But fossil fuels do have one oft-overlooked advantage over solar power that has long prevented solar from truly emerging: they're
Mysterious Interstellar Asteroid Could Be a Part of Alien Spaceship, Astronomers Say
Interstellar mystery rock Oumuamua might have been part of an alien reconnaissance mission, according to two Harvard Smithsonian astronomers who saw in the strange object signs it could be a light-driven probe. As the strange rock moved out of our solar system last September, it sped up instead of slowing
Sun sets on Dawn spacecraft’s asteroid belt mission
Researchers create scalable platform for on-chip quantum emitters
Household lightbulbs give off a chaotic torrent of energy, as trillions of miniscule light particles—called photons—reflect and scatter in all directions. Quantum light sources, on the other hand, are like light guns that fire single photons one by one, each time they are triggered, enabling them to carry hack-proof digital
First Bose-Einstein Condensate Created In Space
An international team of physicists reports that they have successfully produced a Bose-Einstein condensate in space for the first time. In the study published this past week in Nature, the group describes how they created a small device capable of producing a Bose-Einstein condensate, attached it to a rocket, and the
Researchers confirm Earth’s inner core is solid
A new study by researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) could help us understand how our planet was formed.Associate Professor Hrvoje Tkalčić and PhD Scholar Than-Son Phạm are confident they now have direct proof the earth's inner core is solid.They came up with a way to detect shear waves, or
Five in a row—the planets align in the night sky
World’s fastest camera at 10 trillion frames per second
Another NASA Space Telescope Sidelined by Glitch
Another NASA space telescope is out of commission, at least for the time being.The Chandra X-ray Observatory, which has been observing the universe in high-energy light since 1999, entered a protective "safe mode" on Wednesday (Oct. 10), NASA officials announced."All systems functioned as expected and the scientific instruments are safe," agency