Our solar system is like a 4.6-billion-year-old crime scene. Crater-ridden surfaces, misaligned planetary orbits and streams of interplanetary debris are
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Black Holes Ruled Out As Universe’s Missing Dark Matter
For one brief shining moment after the 2015 detection of gravitational waves from colliding black holes, astronomers held out hope
Continue readingAstronomers find first compelling evidence for a moon outside our solar system
A pair of Columbia University astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and Kepler Space Telescope have assembled compelling evidence for
Continue readingHypervelocity alien stars could be invading the Milky Way
Astronomers have discovered a population of incredibly fast-moving stars bearing down on the Milky Way. It is possible that these
Continue readingFour newly discovered Milky Way neighbors
Ultra-faint dwarf galaxies are the smallest, most dark matter dominated, and least chemically enriched stellar systems in the universe, and
Continue readingScientists Think They’ve Finally Found The Crushing Limits of Gravity Humans Could Survive
They don’t call Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson ‘The Mountain’ for nothing. In 2015, the strong man and Game of Thrones actor
Continue readingAstronomers Capture the Sharpest Image yet of a Monster Galaxy 12.4 Billion Light Years Away
Looking back 13-billion years into our universe’s past, a group of scientists first discovered the monster COSMOS-AzTEC-1 galaxy using the
Continue readingAstronomers Are Looking For Signs Of Alien Life In The Andromeda Galaxy
A group of astronomers has taken the first steps to looking for alien life in the Andromeda galaxy as part
Continue readingMaking head or tail of a galactic landscape
Astronomers have used data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to capture a dramatic image of an enormous tail of hot
Continue readingFour extremely young asteroid families identified
Four families of extremely young asteroids have been identified by researchers affiliated with São Paulo State University (UNESP) in Guaratinguetá,
Continue readingSpaceX and ispace Plan to Send Robots to the Moon by 2020
Japanese lunar exploration robotics firm ispace announced today its plans for its first two lunar missions scheduled for 2020 and
Continue readingThe Possibility of Interstellar Travel
Mankind depends on exploration. We long to satisfy our curiosity for what lies in every direction, expanding trade routes and
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