How stars can limit life in the universe
For the past few decades, scientists have been looking at planets outside of our solar system to see if they could host life. Now,…
Category: Astrophysics
A new understanding of weather on Saturn
The Cassini spacecraft revealed the atmosphere of Saturn has large regions that don’t cycle to the poles and that the atmosphere is filled…
Can Artificial Intelligence find new planets for us?
On a clear night you might easily see Jupiter, Mars or other planets from our solar system. This is how astronomers from thousands of years…
Using The Big Bang As A Ruler
Baryon acoustic oscillations, an artifact remaining from the Big Bang, can be used by scientists to measure cosmological distances…
An Interstellar Asteroid Just Flew Through Our Solar System
An asteroid recently came blazing through our solar system and it appears to be an interstellar visitor. The asteroid, dubbed A/2017 U1,…
What Protects Exoplanets from Damaging Solar Flares?
Thanks to NASA’s Kepler Mission, over one-thousand potentially habitable exoplanets have been discovered to-date, orbiting around their…
A New Field of Science: Space Pasta and Nuclear Crusts
A new field of science is born – astromaterial science. First mentioned in today’s paper, this scientific field studies materials of…
Gravitational Waves from A Neutron Star Merger Shake the Earth and Astrophysics
Big News! Astrophysics receives a gift. Interferometers at LIGO and Virgo detected gravitational waves coming from two neutron stars…
The Sleeping Giant in a Small Town
Astronomers have uncovered a supermassive black hole, weighing 17 billion suns, in the middle of nowhere. This nearly record-breaking…
Two Black Holes Made a Mega Black Hole!
1.76 billion light years away, two black holes smashed into one another, bearing one huge black hole the size of 53 suns. The explosion from…