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On A Cosmic Scale, The Universe Is Quite Small — This Could Transform Our Understanding Of It

— Antonio Veloz / 500px/500px/Getty Images The Universe is big, as Douglas Adams would say. The most distant light we can see is the cosmic microwave background (CMB), which has taken more than 13 billion years to reach us. This marks the edge of the observable Universe, and while you might think that means the […]

Black Holes Could Be Hiding Out In Star Clusters Near Earth — Can We Find Them?

— Credit: NASA, ESA, and STScI In the constellation Taurus, there is a cluster of a few hundred stars known as the Hyades. The cluster is just 150 light-years away, and it could be harboring a stellar-mass black hole. The idea of black holes lurking in star clusters is not new. Clusters often have large, […]

Behold Supersonic Jets Spewing Out of a Baby Star’s Cocoon

— ESA/Webb, NASA, CSA, Tom Ray (Dublin) Astronomers are looking deep into the cocoons of stars. New, high-resolution views of these mighty fledglings are coming from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a project by the European Space Agency, the Canadian Space Agency, and NASA. Researchers recently pointed the observatory towards the dazzling object Herbig-Haro […]

NASA’s Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) Report Is Finally Public — Here’s What It Shows

NASA has finally released the highly-anticipated unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) report, which finally draws some needed conclusions, but also, of course, raises some new questions. UAP is the modern term for UFO. UAP is now used to disavow the mysterious sightings over air and sea from their popular connection to extraterrestrials. During a Thursday press […]

Mars is Accelerating Its Spin, According to Data from a Defunct NASA Mission

NASA recently announced that Mars is spinning faster and its days have shortened. Five years ago, NASA placed a revolutionary mission on the surface of Mars called InSight. It has since died, after Martian dust covered InSight’s solar panels and cut off its energy. Nevertheless, data gathered in its primary and extended missions continues to […]

NASA Rover Discovers Strange Hexagonal Patterns on Mars That Could Suggest Past Life

Hexagonal formations on Mars are record-keepers of its ancient wet environment — and may reveal if Earth’s neighbor could have ever supported microbial life. On August 9, the journal Nature published a paper based on observations made by NASA’s Curiosity rover, a mission that, earlier this month, celebrated its eleventh year of exploring Gale Crater. […]

Futuristic Paper Shows It’s Feasible to Build a Space Station on an Asteroid

The basic idea of turning an asteroid into a rotating space habitat has existed for a while. Despite that, it’s always seemed relatively far off regarding technologies, so the concept hasn’t received much attention over the years. But, if you’re retired and have an underlying interest in researching space habitats, developing a detailed plan for […]

Astronomers May Have Just Solved an Enduring Venus Mystery

With its thick, cloudy atmosphere, Venus has long held mysteries about its surface. It was only in the late 20th century that astronomers had detailed observations of the Venusian landscape, with the Russian Venera landers in the 1970s and 1980s and later the 1990 Magellan mission, which made high-resolution radar maps of the surface. There […]

LG’s NASA-Inspired Coffee Maker Is an Homage to Apollo 11’s Lunar Lander

As the division of LG that’s known for putting out eccentric products, LG Labs is making a moonshot with its Duobo coffee maker. Drawing inspiration from the Apollo 11 moon landing, the Duobo features a novel design with two chambers for coffee pods, all packaged in a smart home device that looks like a lunar […]

Look! NASA Smashed Into an Asteroid So Hard It May Have Sent Boulders Flying into Space

The epic collision of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), which took place on September 26, 2022, was the space agency’s first major experiment at managing the existential threat of a near-Earth asteroid. The experiment sought to learn if we could knock one off course. Early results were positive. DART precisely struck Dimorphos, the moonlet […]