Chemistry requires effort. Whether it’s raising the temperature, making the atoms more likely to meet in a hot collision, or turning up the pressure and…
Astronomers detect 6 massive galaxies so old they can’t be explained by science
The six candidate galaxies identified in the JWST data. / NASA, ESA, CSA, I. Labbe/Swinburne University of Technology The SextetThe finding came from observations made…
Ann Hodges was the only human being in recorded history to be hit by a meteorite. 1954
Her name was Ann Hodges and she went down in history for starring in the only officially recorded case of someone being struck by a…
Mysterious Russian satellites are now breaking apart in low-Earth orbit
A mysterious Russian satellite whose mission is unknown has come crashing down in Earth’s orbit, creating a dangerous cloud of debris that travels rapidly around…
How to exceed the speed of light?
Unfortunately, it is impossible for any object with mass to travel faster than the speed of light according to the laws of physics. To exceed…
A planet almost exactly the size of Earth has been found 72 light-years away
We’ve just found an exoplanet almost exactly the same size as Earth orbiting a small star not too far away. It’s called K2-415b, and its…
How will our Sun collapse?
Our Sun is a main sequence star, which is a type of star that is in a stable state of fusion and will continue to…
Astronomers discovered an exoplanet 31 light years away from Earth that could be habitable
A team of experts from the Max Planck Institute in Germany found it and named it Wolf 1069b. It is similar in size to the…
Hubble telescope directly measures the mass of a white dwarf for the first time
A view of LAWD 37 as seen by Hubble. Image: NASA, ESA, P. McGill (Univ. of California, Santa Cruz and University of Cambridge), K. Sahu…
Scientists reproduced a gravity field 1,000 times stronger than Earth’s gravity
Solar activity associated with space weather can cause fluctuating electrical currents in space, directly impacting Earth’s electrical grid and energizing electrons and protons trapped in…