Tag: Astronomy
‘Shadow Blaster’ Galaxy May Be Source of Elusive Cosmic Neutrinos
In the depths of the cosmos, the most intriguing galaxies often hide in plain sight — shrouded behind...
WASP-121 b: The Alien World Where Sunrise and Sunset Never End
The universe is so vast that it continually reveals sights beyond imagination. Deep in space, far from...
Jupiter’s Lightning Is Hundreds of Times More Powerful Than Earth’s
A team of researchers from the University of California, Berkeley has found that lightning bolts inside...
Ancient Mega-Floods May Have Once Torn Across Mars, ESA Images Reveal
Today’s Mars is a dry, frozen, and lifeless world. Across its vast red wasteland remain enormous scars...
NASA Discovers Vast ‘Cosmic Glacier’ Region Hidden Deep in the Milky Way
Where did water in the universe come from? Before life was born, when did the basic elements that make...
New Space Telescope Set to Revolutionize Understanding of Dark Energy, Dark Matter
Inside the clean room at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, engineers have completed the construction...
Record-Breaking Supermassive Black Hole Found in TON 618
In the distant universe, an almost unimaginably massive object continues to release enormous amounts...
NASA Confirms First Dark Matter Celestial Object: Cloud-9
Dark matter is an invisible, hypothetical form of matter in the universe. It does not emit light, nor...
Hubble Telescope Reveals Huge Star Explosion in Stunning Detail
WASHINGTON — About 11.5 billion years ago, a distant star roughly 530 times larger than our sun died...
The Scientific Accomplishments of Ancient China’s Guo Shoujing
With an asteroid and a lunar crater named in his memory, there is no doubt that Guo Shoujing’s legacy...
Understanding Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein is the most famous and respected scientist in history. A friend and biographer, Abraham...