One of Stephen Hawking’s Most Famous Theories About Black Holes Just Suffered a Huge Blow
One of Stephen Hawking’s most famous hypotheses on dark matter — that this mysterious and invisible element is made up of primordial black holes — was recently…
Earth Rang Like a Bell for 20 Minutes, And Nobody Knows Why
Seismic sensors first picked up the event originating near an island between Madagascar and Africa. Then, alarm bells started ringing as far away as Chile, New Zealand…
NASA discovers a 1,000-light-year-wide cosmic bubble around Earth
The Milky Way is blowing a star-forming bubble, and we’re in the middle of it. Star formation in the 500 light-years around Earth is being driven by…
Scientists Discover Giant Reservoir Of ‘Hidden Water’ Just Three Feet Below Mars’ Grand Canyon
If we send a crewed spaceship to Mars right now and it lands in a large canyon and starts exploring, they’ll find a mᴀssive deposit of water….
Earth Looks Like A Living Creature In This Amazing NASA Video
NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio (SVS) has published a remarkable video that depicts Earth in ways you’ve probably never seen before. The video is a time-lapse model of…
The Moon Has Enough Oxygen to Sustain 8 Billion People For 100,000 Years
Although the Moon does have an atmosphere, it is very thin and mostly made of hydrogen, neon, and argon. This is not a gaseous combination capable of…
Our Brains Are Too Puny to Fully Understand The Scale of The Universe
As an astrophysicist, I am always struck by the fact that even the wildest science-fiction stories tend to be distinctly human in character. No matter how exotic…
Scientists Reveal Plan to Make Mars Habitable by Restarting Its Magnetic Field
The plan calls for putting a nuclear reactor on Phobos, the moon of Mars. Strangely, as part of the Artemis mission, NASA recently disclosed identical intentions to…
BREAKING: Astronomers Have Found an Earth-Like Planet Practically Next-Door to Us
Astronomers have discovered a new exoplanet that is slightly larger than Earth and orbits a red dwarf star 66.5 light-years away. It’s a good prospect, scientists think,…
A Star Just Turned Into A Black Hole Before Hubble’s Very Eyes
When a mᴀssive star runs out of fuel, its core collapses into a dense object, ejecting the remaining gas in a process known as a supernova. What…