Nothing can escape from a black hole, not even light. In simple words, they are the regions of space with an extremely strong gravitational field.…
Cosmic Milestone: NASA Confirms 5,000 Exoplanets
What do planets outside our solar system, or exoplanets, look like? A variety of possibilities are shown in this illustration. Scientists discovered the first exoplanets…
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Arp 78: Peculiar Galaxy in AriesImage Credit & License: International Gemini Observatory / NOIRLab / NSF / AURAProcessing: T.A. Rector (Univ. Alaska Anchorage), J. Miller (Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab), M. Zamani &…
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Centaurus AImage Credit :David Alemazkour Explanation: A mere 11 million light-years away, Centaurus A is the closest active galaxy to planet Earth. Spanning over 60,000 light-years, the peculiar elliptical galaxy…
What will the future of the universe be like?
The ancient Greek philosophers were right; everything that the universe contains is reduced to four types of elements. Two of them are well known: photons…
What happened to the Tesla that Elon Musk launched into space?
SpaceX Billionaire Elon Musk is constantly in the spotlight of the world thanks to the innovations of the companies he leads and the peculiar inventions…
The Big Bang, CPT, and Neutrino Dark Matter
Latham Boyle1, Kieran Finn1,2 and Neil Turok11Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2L 2Y52School of Physics and Astronomy,University of ManchesterManchester, UK, M13 9PL We…
Massive bubbles in the center of the Milky Way caused by a supermassive black hole
NASA’s visualization team created an overlay of an image of the Milky Way, taken by the European Space Agency’s Gaia Space Observatory, and a visualization…
A Flower-Shaped Rock on Mars
Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, MSSS It is one of the more unusual rocks yet found on Mars. Smaller than a penny, the rock has several appendages that make…
Elon Musk-led SpaceX’s Starlink Project Worries NASA?
In recent weeks, Elon Musk’s company has lost a good handful of satellites, one crossed the sky of Spain in flames and another 40 have…