45 Million Light-Years Away, Scientists Finally Captured the Violent Heart of a Galaxy Being Consumed by Its Own Black Hole
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured a stunning new image of Messier 77, a spiral galaxy whose…
Dante’s Inferno suggests Hell and Purgatory mirror the physics of a massive asteroid impact
For centuries, Dante Alighieri’s Inferno has been read as a moral and spiritual descent, a journey into sin,…
Tiny world beyond Pluto is wrapped in a mysterious atmosphere
Astronomers have detected a thin atmosphere around a small icy world beyond Pluto, where gravity should not hold…
“Hypergravity” Rewires Biology Over the Long Haul
There’s a specific sequence in the anime Dragonball Z that for some reason has stuck in my head…
SpaceX Fired Up Its 33-Engine Starship ‘V3’ Super Heavy Rocket Booster, Paving the Way for Historic Launch
SpaceX has reached a pivotal moment in its quest to launch the most powerful rocket in history. After…
4 Meteor Myths You Need To Stop Believing
Angel_nt/Getty Images Residents of northeast Ohio experienced a…
Do look up: stargazing in New Zealand’s first dark sky community | New Zealand holidays
As the last strip of pink on the horizon fades to indigo on the Maniototo Plain in Otago,…
Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab make a breakthrough in rotor technology
Engineer Jaakko Karras inspects a next-generation Mars helicopter rotor blade prior to testing it at supersonic speeds in…
Dante’s Inferno may have predicted planetary impact physics centuries before modern science
New research suggests Dante Alighieri’s Inferno may have done more than shape literary history — it may also…
Here’s When and Where to Watch!
In mid-May, skywatchers will have an extraordinary opportunity to witness the Milky Way’s glowing core in all its…
ESA and JAXA Join Forces in Historic Collaboration to Protect Earth from Potential Asteroid Impacts
In a historic collaboration, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have taken…
Mercury has a 10-mile-thick layer of diamonds under its surface
Mercury does not look like a world built for extravagance. It is small, battered, sun-scorched and gray. Yet…