It keeps breaking astronomer’s models of how stars are supposed to act. Something’s up with the North Star. People have watched the North Star for centuries. The bright star, also known as Polaris, is almost directly…
WASP-76 b may be the most extreme exoplanet we know of. There’s a new contender for the “most exotic exoplanet” title. The crown may have rested for a while now on the head of HD 189733 b,…
One of the biggest mysteries out there in the Universe is inching closer to answers. An astonishing eight new repeating radio signals known as fast radio bursts (FRBs) have been detected flaring from deep space. At the…
Melinda Snodgrass got the idea for her science fiction novel The High Ground when she started thinking about how awful human beings can be. “I had a sudden vision of this nine-foot-tall alien ant-like creature with mandibles…
All five remaining instruments on NASA’s venerable Voyager 2 spacecraft are back to gathering science data after power overuse in late January interrupted the probe’s operations. NASA made the announcement yesterday (March 3), over a month after the incident…
You can catch the sky show, too, if you’re willing to rise before the sun. Even the bright lights of New York City couldn’t swamp this celestial spectacle. Alexander Krivenyshev of WorldTimeZone.com photographed a gorgeous…
Jupiter appears to have more water than anyone expected. Newly released data from NASA’s Juno probe shows that water may make up about 0.25% of the molecules in the atmosphere over Jupiter’s equator. While that doesn’t sound like…
String theory is a purported theory of everything that physicists hope will one day explain … everything. All the forces, all the particles, all the constants, all the things under a single theoretical roof, where everything…
Liftoff is set for 10:05 a.m. EST (1505 GMT). The private spaceflight company SpaceX will launch 60 new Starlink internet satellites to join its growing megaconstellation in orbit today (Feb .17) and you can watch the action live online. …
AN ASTEROID capable of causing global destruction if it hits will approach our planet tomorrow afternoon, the US space agency NASA has found. NASA’s automated asteroid tracking systems have their eyes on a potentially cataclysmic rock dubbed 163373 (2002…
The mysterious signal is repeating every 16 days. A Harvard researcher says it could be of “artificial origin.” Earlier this month, Canadian researchers announced they’d discovered a powerful radio signal, emanating from a distant galaxy in bursts…
A meteorite that hit Australia 51 years ago brought to Earth the oldest matter we have ever found, writes Reuters. Inside the meteorite, which fell near the town of Murchison in 1969, 40 tiny particles of…
A radio telescope has detected a fast radio burst from another galaxy that appears to pulsate in a regular 16-day cycle, according to a new paper on the pre-print server arXiv, which has not yet been peer-reviewed. Nothing…