Category: Astrophysics - Page 3

Baryon acoustic oscillations, an artifact remaining from the Big Bang, can be used by scientists to measure cosmological distances…

An asteroid recently came blazing through our solar system and it appears to be an interstellar visitor. The asteroid, dubbed A/2017 U1,…

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 is born – astromaterial science. First mentioned in today’s paper, this scientific field studies materials of…

Big News! Astrophysics receives a gift. Interferometers at LIGO and Virgo detected gravitational waves coming from two neutron stars…

Astronomers have uncovered a supermassive black hole, weighing 17 billion suns, in the middle of nowhere. This nearly record-breaking…

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…

“How moving!” is what the Earth would say when it comes into contact with gravitational waves. Albert Einstein’s general theory of…

There is overwhelming evidence to support the existence of dark matter, but its existence is still a mystery to physicists. A method called…

If there are multiple universes, which of them are capable of harboring life and why? A physicist comes up with a number, and that number is…