Black holes are notoriously hard to detect, since they are as black as the space surrounding them. We can only pinpoint them in special circumstances, like when they pull down gas from a neighboring star or merge together, releasing a flood of gravitational waves. So how many black holes areContinue Reading
The DART mission is scheduled to launch at 1:20 a.m. EST on Nov. 24. If you’re on the East Coast of the U.S., you may have to set your alarm; the rocket bearing the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft is scheduled to blast off at 1:20 a.m. EST (6:20Continue Reading
The study reveals why Thanos’ famous snap would’ve been impossible. In Marvel’s “Avengers: Infinity War,” supervillain Thanos uses a simple gesture — a snap of a finger — to destroy half of all life in the universe. But the mass-murdering comic book character not only would have failed to wreakContinue Reading
Seven astronauts were forced to take shelter due to flying space debris. Seven astronauts on the International Space Station were forced to take shelter in their transport spacecraft early Monday (Nov. 15) when the station passed uncomfortably closed to orbital debris, according to reports. The space junk passes began inContinue Reading
The ice could explain the mysterious magnetic fields belonging to icy worlds. Scientists just squeezed a water droplet between two diamonds and blasted it to star-like temperatures with one of the world’s most powerful lasers. The result was a new and mysterious phase of water. Called superionic ice, the “strange,Continue Reading
A photographer in Zurich, Switzerland, spotted the glowing object while four SpaceX astronauts returned to Earth thousands of miles away. On the night of Monday, Nov. 8, a photographer in Zurich, Switzerland, who goes by the Twitter handle @Eavix1Eavix aimed his camera at the sky and snapped several pictures ofContinue Reading
The asteroid Kamo`oalewa passes within 9 million miles of Earth every April. It may have once been part of our moon. A small asteroid orbiting close to Earth could be a fragment of the moon that snapped off during an ancient impact, according to new research published Nov. 11 inContinue Reading
The waves were produced by black holes and neutron stars spiraling into each other. A record “tsunami” of gravitational waves — ripples in the fabric of space-time — could help to unlock the mysteries of how the universe and its stars evolved and put Einstein’s theory of general relativity toContinue Reading
NASA’s Prime-1 ice-driller will ride an Intuitive Machines Nova-C lander to the moon. NASA has set its sights on the moon’s south pole in its quest for ice. This week, the space agency and the company Intuitive Machines announced Shackleton Crater landing site at the south pole of the moonContinue Reading
A strong solar storm is creating aurora-friendly conditions as far south as Pennsylvania, Iowa and Oregon this week. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Space Weather Prediction Center, the sun released two coronal mass ejections (CME) on Nov. 1 and Nov. 2. CMEs are eruptions in theContinue Reading
