If what little we know about gravitational waves is correct, there should be something known as a gravitational wave background, a kind of resonant “buzz”…
New theory tries to answer Earth’s greatest mystery
Without the Sun there is no life: scientists start from this overwhelming truth to understand the origins of the biosphere. Among the main mysteries of…
Astronomers capture a massive volcanic eruption from a black hole near Earth that extends 16 times the full moon in the sky
Centaurus A is a giant elliptical galaxy active 12 million light years away. At its core is a black hole with a mass of 55…
Rea. Saturn Moon
Rhea, discovered on December 23, 1672 by Giovanni Cassini, is the second largest moon of Saturn, but at a distance of 527,000 kilometers from Saturn…
Astronomers discover the most distant quasar ever found
An international team of astronomers has discovered the most distant quasar to date. The quasar is known as J0313-1806 and is so far away that…
NASA Enters the Solar Atmosphere for the First Time, Bringing New Discoveries
For the first time in history, a spacecraft has touched the Sun. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has now flown through the Sun’s upper atmosphere – the corona…
Scientists Just Found a ‘Significant’ Volume of Water Inside Mars’ Grand Canyon
A depiction of canyons (left), and Mars itself (right). The Red Planet is hiding an appealing secret. Scientists have discovered a world-historic discovery on Mars:…
These are the deepest images of the black hole in the Milky Way
Images obtained by ESO’s VLTI of stars at the center of the Milky Way. Photo: ESO A team of astronomers from the European Southern Observatory…
Super-bright stellar explosion is likely a dying star giving birth to a black hole or neutron star
In June of 2018, telescopes around the world picked up a brilliant blue flash from the spiral arm of a galaxy 200 million light years…
Machine Learning decodes the tremors of the Universe
Neural network analyzes gravitational waves in real time Researchers trained a neural network to estimate – in just a few seconds – the precise characteristics…