Get ready: Space-mining might be only a decade away
Is water the new oil of space? It may be to Middle Eastern oil states such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, who are looking at space as…
It’s happening: LIGO just detected gravitational waves for the THIRD time
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) has done it again, detecting gravitational waves rippling away from a cosmic collision between a pair of black holes. Only this time, the pair…
New evidence reveals black hole event horizons are all too real
Scientists have found new evidence to support the idea that matter vanishes completely when it falls into a supermassive black hole, suggesting Einstein was right about these unquenchable voids lurking…
Look up: Jupiter and Saturn will light up the night skies in June
Summer soon arrives, and the big planets Jupiter and Saturn will entertain evening onlookers, Venus will distract morning dog walkers and Mars starts a season-long hiatus. Catch a fattening, waxing…
NASA is about to make a big announcement about a new mission to “touch the Sun”
This Wednesday, NASA will officially announce its intention to launch a probe that will dip inside the Sun’s atmosphere, calling it the first ever mission to “touch the Sun”. The…
This failed supernova might have given us our first look at the birth of a black hole
A star which normally would have been expected to end in a supernova surprised astronomers by going out with fizzle rather than a bang, leading them to suspect they’d just…
NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Just Shattered What We Knew About Jupiter
Just when we thought we had Jupiter all figured out, NASA’s Juno spacecraft reveals new results that challenge almost every assumption we’ve made about the gas giant. The first, said…
NASA just fast-tracked its mission to explore a $10,000 quadrillion metal asteroid
It might have just pushed back its manned mission to Mars, but NASA just fast-tracked a planned journey to 16 Psyche – an asteroid made almost entirely of nickel-iron metal.…
Star Wars turns 40, and it still inspires our real-life space junkies
It was 40 years ago today, on 25 May 1977, that Star Wars first burst onto cinema screens, and from that time the world changed for the better. Star Wars…
A new type of planetary object has been proposed – and it could explain Earth’s origin
Scientists have proposed that an unknown type of planetary object has been lurking in our Universe this whole time, and it might have even given rise to Earth as we…
These healthy space pups were born from sperm that spent 9 months in orbit
Mouse sperm that spent more than nine months in orbit have been used to produce a litter of healthy mice, giving hope that mammalian reproduction in space colonies could one…
Gravitational waves are permanently warping the fabric of space-time
Researchers have proposed a method for detecting exotic events in physics by looking for the scars they leave behind on the fabric of space. By identifying how objects like cosmic…