Odd radio circles: giant unexplained space rings
Astronomers keep finding enormous rings of radio light in deep space that nothing in the textbooks can account…
Scientists Spent 13 Years Bouncing Radar Off Europa. Here’s What They Found
It’s a good time to be a Europa fan—scientists keep announcing new insights into the distant, icy world.…
The Mother of All Deep Space Radio Telescopes Is Going Up in the Nevada Desert
“Radio-quiet” regions, like the area around West Virginia’s Green Bank Observatory, are hard to come by. The spots…
SpaceX IPO: Why Starship Could End Overnight Business Travel
Topline As investors prepare for what could be one of the biggest IPOs ever, SpaceX is increasingly valued…
Astronomers Detect a Close Pair of Supermassive Black Holes for the First Time
The artistic rendering shows the center of the galaxy Markarian 501, from which two powerful jets emanate. The…
A pulsar rotating 122 times per second could be present at the heart of the Milky Way
ⓘ NidhiYashwanth – Pixabay An artist’s illustration showing a pulsar. After conducting research, astronomers would have discovered a…
It’s Historic: Two Black Holes Have Just Been Photographed Together for the First Time
It’s Historic: Two Black Holes Have Just Been Photographed Together for the First Time – Futura-Sciences February 9,…
Scientists Scanned 3I/ATLAS for Alien Signals. Here’s What They Found
From the moment astronomers discovered interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, they became fixated on one question: What is it? Months…
Astronomers Say They Just Detected Radio Signals Coming from This Comet
The comet 12P/Pons-Brooks (Credit: Nielander/Public Domain) Welcome to this edition of The Intelligence Brief… This week, astronomers in…
Citizen Scientists Spot a Perfect Extragalactic Venn Diagram
For lovers of cool astronomy and math, this finding is a real treat. Citizen astronomers stumbled upon not…
Astronomers Discover Colossal Cosmic “Bridge” Linking Galaxies Across Space
CSIRO’s ASKAP radio telescope on Wajarri Yamaji Country. Credit: Alex Cherney/CSIRO Astronomers have discovered a massive bridge of…
Daylight Savings Time Is So Bad, It’s Messing With Our View of the Cosmos
Tracking gravitational waves—invisible ripples in space-time from intense astronomical events—pushes the limits of what astronomers must do to…