Megan Williamson, Author at Different Impulse

Caught in the Act—Astronomers Get Their Best Look Yet at a Supernova Blowing Up

Georgios Dimitriadis thought he had botched the data. It was late on a Friday night and the University of California,

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Astronomers have discovered a distant planet with an abundance of helium in its atmosphere, which has swollen to resemble an

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Researchers began viewing crystals shimmer in the 1990 s. Those crystals sparkled more in the summer season, which scientists took

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An international team of scientists have detected ripples in space and time, known as gravitational waves, from the biggest known

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Smart home devices are getting momentum. According to reports, over 39 million people in the United States alone own a

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Astronomers have measured all the starlight that has managed to escape into space over the history of the universe. It

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Gathering detailed information on exoplanets is extremely difficult. The light from their host star overwhelms the light from the exoplanet,

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Astronomers have spotted a mysterious “ghost” galaxy orbiting the Milky Way. Huge but extremely faint, the oddball galaxy has been

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The origin story of Earth is a tale of God-like cosmic forces and geological timespans so colossal they are almost

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Black holes occur when a massive star dies and collapses with enough gravity that nothing, not even light, can escape

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It’s hard to believe that we still use climate change-inducing fossil fuels when we have a sun that’s bombarding our

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Interstellar mystery rock Oumuamua might have been part of an alien reconnaissance mission, according to two Harvard Smithsonian astronomers who

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