The James Webb Space Telescope will be 100 times as powerful as the Hubble. It will change how we see the universe. Exploring strange new…
Bezos Wants to Create a Better Future in Space. His Company Blue Origin Is Stuck in a Toxic Past. /lioness co/
By: Alexandra Abrams, Former Head of Blue Origin Employee Communications, and 20 other Blue Origin employees and former employees on the New Shepard, New Glenn,…
How the largest black holes in the universe arose
In the middle of the path that separates the small constellations of Delphinus the Dolphin and the hind hoof of Pegasus the flying horse, an…
Astrophysicists solve the mystery of ’empty sky’ gamma rays
Star-forming galaxies are responsible for creating gamma rays so far not associated with a known origin, confirms a study by the ANU (Australian National University).…
Waves in Saturn’s rings reveal the nature of its core
Image credit: NASA Oscillations inside Saturn cause the gas giant to move slightly. Those movements, in turn, cause ripples in Saturn’s rings. In a new…
Neutron star and black hole collision detected
For the first time, astronomers witnessed a black hole swallowing a neutron star, the densest object in the universe, in fractions of a second. Ten…
Tesla and Mark Twain
One of the best known photographs of Nikola Tesla is not a photograph of Nikola Tesla. Well, Tesla comes out, but behind, like behind the…
Mount Olympus: Curiosities of the highest mountain in the Solar System
Image credit: NASA What is the largest volcano in the Solar System? Mount Olympus, the highest mountain on Mars. Here the curiosities of the Martian…
The most curious beaches in Australia
Image credit: J.F. RED Australia is the largest island in the world and unsurprisingly it has a plethora of beaches. There are an estimated 10,000.…
This asteroid only needs 113 days to go around the Sun: only the planet Mercury goes faster
Discovering new asteroids roaming the solar system is not exceptional, we have millions of these small stellar bodies orbiting the sun and we have been…