The flashing of a nearby star led astronomers to discover that it’s part of a rare and mysterious system called a “black widow binary.” A black widow binary a type of system consisting of a rapidly … [+5193 chars]
On Saturday (May 7), the world may witness minor radio blackouts. Well, if you do, it may be due to a weak solar storm, which will pass through Earth, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrat… [+1136 chars]
Jellyfish are a common sight along the Florida coast but people who watched the latest rocket launch from the Kennedy Space Center were treated to a unique sight. Friday morning's SpaceX launch gene… [+1070 chars]
The Hubble Asteroid Hunter project combined artificial intelligence with human eyes to discover new ... [+] asteroid trails in 37,000 old images from the Hubble Space Telescope. getty So-called cit… [+4480 chars]
By Ashley Strickland, CNN Millions of elusive black holes hide in plain sight across the Milky Way galaxy, only giving away their presence occasionally through bursts of X-ray light when they feed o… [+4275 chars]
China's LinkSpace plans to send a rocket into space and land it safely in late 2022, three years after the startup's last major test. The company announced Thursday (May 5) that it had carried out a… [+3603 chars]
A group of astronomers, led by Sierk van Terwisga from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, have analyzed the mass distribution of over 870 planet-forming disks in the Orion A cloud. By exploiting… [+7511 chars]
Scientists from the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research have used computer modeling to show how a hypothesized type of supernova would evolve on the scale of thousands of years, giving researchers … [+3605 chars]
Physicists sometimes come up with crazy stories that sound like science fiction. Some turn out to be true, like how the curvature of space and time described by Einstein was eventually borne out by a… [+9691 chars]
Today, ESA and the Zooniverse launch Rosetta Zoo, a citizen science project that invites volunteers to engage in a cosmic game of "spot the difference." By browsing through pictures collected by ESA'… [+5390 chars]
The Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a companion star to a supernova that was previously hidden by the glare of the stellar explosion. This is the first time that astronomers have directly observed… [+4843 chars]
Yet another cloud of space debris has appeared in orbit around Earth. This particular cloud was birthed by the explosion of an old Russian rocket motor. Currently, the U.S. Space Force’s 18th Space S… [+2874 chars]
