In May, the supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Way became 75 times brighter in just two hours. The supermassive black hole that lives at the center of our galaxy has been mysteriously sparkling as of late, and nobody knows the reason. This dark …
A glitch in the cosmos. You remember that part in the (now 20-year-old) film The Matrix where Neo looks at a black cat and then seconds later, he sees the same black cat again? And he's all like "I just had deja vu but it's OK" but it's …
Despite the level of understanding and knowledge the world has about so many things, everyone is still getting excited about new discoveries and this one is no exception. A rare meteorite, which was found in Siberia, contains a crystal, or at least what appears to …
A massive meteor appears to have recently crashed into Jupiter — and it was big enough to be seen by an amateur astronomer here on Earth. Ethan Chappel captured the rare moment with nothing more than a backyard telescope. Chappel recorded a bright, unexpected flash on the surface of the gas …
Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is "warped and twisted" and not flat as previously thought, new research shows. Analysis of the brightest stars in the galaxy shows that they do not lie on a flat plane as shown in academic texts and popular science books. Astronomers from …
A photo of Uranus taken by Voyager 2 in 1986 (edited to show its moon and rings).NASA/JPL-Caltech Uranus is one of the solar system's most mysterious planets.Scientists had long believed that the "ice giant" world has clouds of hydrogen sulfide, a compound that smells bad to people, …
A partial lunar eclipse could be visible from the UK on Tuesday, 50 years to the day since the US mission to put men on the Moon lifted off. Up to 60% of the Moon's surface will appear red or dark grey at the height of …
Psyche's iron alone is thought to be worth a mind-boggling £8,000 quadrillion A giant asteroid known as 16 Psyche contains enough precious heavy metals to make everyone on Earth a billionaire. The asteroid, which is about 140 miles wide and orbits the Sun between the orbits …
IN 1981, MANY of the world’s leading cosmologists gathered at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, a vestige of the coupled lineages of science and theology located in an elegant villa in the gardens of the Vatican. Stephen Hawking chose the august setting to present what he …
This August, the Andromeda galaxy will be even bigger than the moon in our sky! The last time this cosmic event occurred was during the era of the dinosaurs… Share this information as much as you can with your friends because NO human being living today …
NASA's Juno spacecraft recently spotted a possible new volcano at the south pole of Jupiter's most lava-licious moon, Io. But this volcanically active moon is not alone in the solar system, where sizzling-hot rocks explode and ooze onto the surface of several worlds. So how do Earthly …
In 2016, Russian billionaire Yuri Milner launched Breakthrough Initiatives, a massive non-profit organization dedicated to the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence (SETI). A key part of their efforts to find evidence of intelligent life is Breakthrough Listen, a $100 million program that is currently conducting a survey …
Is anybody home? Astronomers have pinpointed two planets orbiting a nearby star that meet pretty much every requirement for supporting life. They're almost exactly the same mass as the Earth, they are billions of years old (which means life could have had time to evolve), …
