In 2020, astronomers identified a nearby star system that appeared to contain something phenomenal: the closest black hole to Earth , sitting a mere 1,000 light-years away (that's less than 1% of th… [+3351 chars]
A huge asteroid will safely fly by Earth today (March 3), and you can watch it live online. The Virtual Telescope Project is planning to stream live telescope views of the asteroid 138971 (2001 CB2… [+2890 chars]
Science is all about refinement. Take Pluto, for example: First a planet, then a dwarf planet, then avenged with a new ninth planet... then potentially one of, like, 150 planets in our solar system? … [+2157 chars]
Enlarge/ This chert bladelet still has a remnant of its bone haft attached. 67 with 35 posters participating We know the oldest human cultures only from their most durable parts: mostly stone tools… [+3494 chars]
An invasive spider in the U.K. snagged two bats in its web, and only one bat survived the grisly encounter, thanks to the help of a local resident who freed the entangled creature before it met its d… [+4591 chars]
Enlarge/ The US Air Force Research Laboratory seeks to develop a satellite to patrol cislunar space. 198 with 92 posters participating This week, the US Air Force Research Laboratory released a vid… [+3631 chars]
You can send your name on a trip around the moon with just a few clicks of your keyboard. NASA is inviting people to put their names on a flash drive that will launch on the agency's Artemis 1 missi… [+2339 chars]
A huge amount of mysterious dark energy is necessary to explain cosmological phenomena, such as the accelerated expansion of the Universe, using Einstein's theory. But what if dark energy was just an… [+4113 chars]
Science is all about refinement. Take Pluto, for example: First a planet, then a dwarf planet, then avenged with a new ninth planet... then potentially one of, like, 150 planets in our solar system? … [+2157 chars]
A huge amount of mysterious dark energy is necessary to explain cosmological phenomena, such as the accelerated expansion of the Universe, using Einstein's theory. But what if dark energy was just an… [+4113 chars]
Using a new method of studying dinosaur tracks, a pair of researchers at Liverpool John Moores University has found that sauropods walked with a gait unlike any creature alive today. In their paper p… [+2391 chars]
Enlarge/ Artist's representation of the merger of two neutron stars to form a black hole (hidden within bright bulge at center of image). The merger generates opposing, high-energy jets of material (… [+6372 chars]
