Astronomers are planning a fishing trip to land an extraterrestrial interloper on Earth: A small meteorite from another star system that crashed into the Pacific… Read More »Astronomers plan to fish an interstellar meteorite out of the ocean using a massive magnet
The telescopes at Maunakea sit calmly at an altitude of around 4200 meters (13,800 feet) beneath a sky filled with extraordinary light. Gemini North’s nighttime… Read More »Unraveling the Mysteries of “Gigantic Jet” Lightning Bursts That Reach 50 Miles Into Space
The many black hole mergers detected through gravitational wave observatories have revealed that black holes crash into each other far more often than we thought.… Read More »How dancing black holes get close enough to merge
A supermoon rises behind the Washington Monument, Sunday, June 23, 2013, in Washington. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls The next full moon is a marginal supermoon and… Read More »Don’t Miss: Sturgeon Supermoon + Perseids Meteor Shower, Mercury, Saturn, Jupiter & Vega
THEnd what hairy beast, its hour comes at last, slouches towards a laboratory to be born? Some 3,900 years ago, on mainland Siberia, the last… Read More »Woolly mammoths are making a comeback. Should we eat them?
Israeli native and Harvard University science professor Avi Loeb’s 60th birthday this past June was marked by both celebration and vindication. For the last three… Read More »Israeli scientist proves his far-out theory on interstellar meteor is down to earth
Earth completed its normal 24-hour rotation 1.59 milliseconds fast on June 29, breaking the record for the shortest day in modern history. (NASA) Estimated read… Read More »Earth broke the record for the shortest day since atomic clocks were invented
From the smallest bacterium to the greatest galaxy, death looms on the horizon; even if, in cosmic terms, the time scales are too large for… Read More »The Universe Could ‘Bounce’ For Eternity. But It Still Had to Start Somewhere
Astronomers armed with early data obtained by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are hunting galaxies that existed just a few hundred million years after… Read More »‘Schrodinger’s Galaxy Candidate’ Is JWST’s Latest Puzzle to Solve
