View larger. | Using these images from the Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 taken on January 8, 2022, astronomers confirmed the biggest comet yet discovered is headed to the inner solar s… [+5321 chars]
Seen nearly edgewise, the turbulent disk of gas churning around a black hole takes on a crazy double-humped appearance. The black holes extreme gravity alters the paths of light coming from different… [+3399 chars]
Virtual travel to space is possible! Thanks to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which did it through what it calls the holoport. NASA virtually teleported a doctor hundreds o… [+2386 chars]
A special form of light made using an ancient Namibian gemstone could be the key to new light-based quantum computers, which could solve long-held scientific mysteries, according to new research led … [+3000 chars]
A special form of light made using an ancient Namibian gemstone could be the key to new light-based quantum computers, which could solve long-held scientific mysteries, according to new research led … [+3000 chars]
The contraption known as the Antikythera mechanism, often dubbed the worlds first computer, was first turned on on 22 December 178 BC, claims a study published in preprint online journal arXiv. An el… [+5255 chars]
Scott Kelly, NASA From now until early July, the five nearest planets to Earth will slowly join a celestial conga line across the pre-dawn sky. These rare, but not once-in-a-lifetime conjunctions o… [+1815 chars]
A little more than a month after observing gamma radiation from a nova burst in the RS Ophiuchi system, astronomers announced the detection of high energy cosmic rays as well, from the same system. R… [+2438 chars]
A butterfly-shaped stellar nursery twinkles in red and orange in a beautiful photo recently released by NASA. The agency's Spitzer Space Telescope captured the image of the aptly named Butterfly N… [+2117 chars]
While we all know that dinosaurs died because of a massive asteroid strike against the Earth, many of us still do not understand how an asteroid that impacted one local geographic location can kill a… [+2087 chars]
An international team of researchers who published a paper in the journal Science in 2016 describing their discovery of an exoplanet with three stars, has now retracted that paper. In their original… [+2341 chars]
<ul><li>The average Lyrid shower produces 15 to 20 meteors per hour.</li><li>The Lyrids have been observed for more than 2,700 years.</li><li>The meteors appear to emanate from the constellation Lyra… [+2235 chars]
