The fossils of three large Ichthyosaurs, extinct marine reptiles that lived roughly 250 million years ago, have been found in a surprising place - the Swiss Alps. As reported by CNN, these Ichthyosa… [+2697 chars]
Using a new tool they nicknamed the Reverberation Machine, researchers have detected eight echoing black hole binaries in the Milky Way. They then converted those X-ray echoes into sound waves, which… [+2984 chars]
It's hard to understand just how truly big something is without seeing it, or at least having something to compare it to. Understanding how large objects can be in space is a common problem for some… [+883 chars]
An astrophotographer captured a beautiful picture of two planets aligned in the sky above Rome — and a little rain didn't stop him. Gianluca Masi spotted Venus and Jupiter hiding behind a thin cloud… [+2382 chars]
Scientists have detected the brightest pulsar ever observed outside the Milky Way, revealing the true identity of a far-off luminous object previously mistaken for a distant galaxy. Pulsars are incr… [+4475 chars]
There's an old joke that the dinosaurs are only extinct because they didn't develop a space agency. The implication, of course, is that unlike our reptilian ancestors, we humans might be able to save… [+5077 chars]
New Delhi: The European Southern Observatory (ESO) and the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project will hold a press conference to present new Milky Way results from the EHT. In 2019, the EHT collabora… [+3226 chars]
NASA is asking the public to comment on an environmental assessment for its Mars sample return effort. The project, a collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA), aims to bring to Earth sampl… [+2810 chars]
Saturn's moon Titan has some surprising similarities to Earth. It has rivers, lakes, seas, and rainstorms, though these are composed of liquid methane rather than water. Now, a new study from resea… [+2387 chars]
Figure 1. (a) The conventional slide rule (left) is driven by mechanical rotation and read out visually with an easy-to-use size. As an analog, an ultra-compact prototype of the photonic counterpart … [+5936 chars]
