NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has made its first detection of its next flyby target, the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule, more than four months ahead of its New Year’s 2019 close encounter.
New era of astronomy uncovers clues about the cosmos Astronomers are now able to detect a host of signals streaming through the universe. This newfound ability is like gaining…
HP Mars Home Planet premieres virtual reality experience HP Inc. and a global community of creators unveiled a virtual reality (VR) simulation of what life on Mars could look…
They've started building the GMT!!! A $1 billion telescope that will take pictures 10 times sharper than Hubble's is now officially under construction In astronomy, cutting-edge technology often begins with…
Oort clouds around other stars should be visible in the cosmic microwave background For decades, scientists have theorized that beyond the edge of the solar system, at a distance…
In a massive region of space, astronomers find far fewer galaxies than they expected “It was a rare case in astronomy where two competing models ... offered precisely opposite…
New Horizons may have spotted a hydrogen wall at the edge of the solar system New Horizons may have seen a hydrogen wall just past the edge of the…
First low-frequency fast radio burst to grace our skies detected at last Nobody knows what these rare speedy electromagnetic spurts really are Source: www.theregister.co.uk/2018/08/03/fast_radio_burst/
World’s Next Largest Telescope Hopes to Answer Question of Life Beyond Earth There’s a telescope under construction in Chile, and it’s slated to be the world’s largest – if…
Scientists identify exoplanets where life could develop as it did on Earth Scientists have identified a group of planets outside our solar system where the same chemical conditions that…
Star spotted speeding near black hole at centre of Milky Way Chile’s Very Large Telescope tracks S2 star as it reaches mind-boggling speeds by supermassive black hole Source: www.theguardian.com/science/2018/jul/26/star-spotted-speeding-near-milky-way-black-hole-for-first-time
The Octonion Math That Could Underpin Physics | Quanta Magazine New findings are fueling an old suspicion that fundamental particles and forces spring from strange eight-part numbers called âoctonions.â…