The field of extrasolar planet studies is undergoing a seismic shift. To date, 4,940 exoplanets have been confirmed in 3,711 planetary systems, with another 8,709 candidates awaiting confirmation. Wi… [+8496 chars]
Ice is the familiar solid phase of water, but there’s much more to it than meets the eye. The kind of ice we find on the planet’s surface, from your winter backyard to Antarctica’s giant ice sheets a… [+3075 chars]
What falls into a black hole, stays in a black hole, at least according to the laws of general relativity. But now, new research suggests that the material inside the black hole may leave a quantum i… [+4188 chars]
Bonnie J. Dunbar had bruises on the back of her arms after wiggling into the hard upper torso of the NASA suit used for spacewalks.And once inside, the suit never fit right. The sleeves were too big,… [+8481 chars]
For the first time, physicists have confirmed a weird quantum phenomenon in which tiny particles, when nudged out of place, will snap right back to where they came from. The strange behavior, called… [+6880 chars]
As humanity moves closer to more affordable space travel, a group of Canadian scientists has proposed developing a “sexology of space”. The topic is a thorny one, since off-Earth sex is taboo in aero… [+3321 chars]
“There is an international race to identify the best platform for controlling and processing quantum information for quantum computers, where superconductors play a prominent role,” says Duc Phan, Ph… [+3071 chars]
In the coming weeks, Coloradans will have the chance to see one of the oldest recorded meteor showers dazzle the night sky. The 2022 Lyrid Meteor Shower is expected to peak on the night of April 21… [+1138 chars]
A mysterious celestial object was captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope that seemed to be a pair of identical galaxies. From exploding stars to colliding galaxies, astronomers have been spectator… [+6779 chars]
Astronomers have been facing a big problem in cosmology the study of the formation and behavior of the Universe itself for a while now. Literally the biggest: Where do the most supermassive black h… [+6760 chars]
It’s called HiRISE, or High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, and it’s the camera installed on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, a NASA satellite orbiting Mars. Recently, this probe approached D… [+1244 chars]
An asteroid around the size of a refrigerator was spotted hours before it hit Earths atmosphere, and while it wasnt dangerous, it marked the fifth time in history an asteroid was detected right befor… [+3243 chars]
