Black Holes Distant black hole brightens every 9 hours and no one knows whyFox News - Rafi LetzterA black hole at the center of a distant galaxy is behaving like no other black hole astronomers have ever seen. Every 9 hours, the black hole at the center of galaxy GSN 069, about 250 million light years
Earth Not Only Didn't We Find Water On An Earth-Like Exoplanet, But We Can't With Current TechnologyForbes - Ethan SiegelThis artist’s impression shows the planet K2-18b, its host star and an accompanying planet in this system. K2-18b is the first super-Earth exoplanet discovered where water is present and with temperatures
Comets Here's What We Know So Far About The Possibly Interstellar Object in Our Solar SystemScienceAlert - Michelle Starr In the Solar System, there are over 6,300 known comets. There are millions of asteroids. And of all those objects, only 'Oumuamua - a red, …
Asteroids Watch an Asteroid Fly by Earth Today in a Live Webcast from Slooh!space.com - Elizabeth Howell This weekend you can see live telescope views of an asteroid hurtling past Earth, thanks to astronomy broadcaster Slooh. An asteroid known as 2000 QW7 …
Moon On Friday the 13th, Don't Be Freaked Out by the 'Micromoon' | Live ScienceLive Science A full moon on Friday the 13th is spooky enough, but hold on to your black cats. September's full moon will also be a "micromoon." Skywatchers in …
Universe Universe might be 2 billion years younger, shocking study saysFox News - Chris CiacciaThe universe is assumed to be roughly 13.7 billion years old, but a stunning new study says it could be significantly younger than that — by a couple of billion years. According to the study, researchers
Asteroids Earth ‘Will Be Hit’ By An Asteroid, Just Not The Huge Pair Flying By NowForbes - Eric MackTwo asteroids, each the size of a skyscraper, are set to fly by Earth this weekend, sending sensational tabloid headline writers into overdrive, despite the lack of any real risk to our planet. The reality
Black Holes This Hungry, Hungry Supermassive Black Hole Has a Monster Appetitespace.com - Samantha Mathewson A supermassive black hole located millions of light-years away maintains a very hearty diet. The black hole is 250 million light-years from Earth, at …
Black Holes This Ridiculously Speedy Star Might Be Running Away from a Rare, Unproven Type of Black Holespace.com - Brandon Specktor Astronomers have discovered a bright, young star that is running away from home. Why? What did the star's parents do to deserve this? According to a …
Science Mysterious waves have been pulsing across OklahomaNational Geographic - Maya Wei-HaasA buzz that rocked the state all summer sent geologists on a labyrinthine chase—and unearthed new mysteries about how energy moves through land and air. It all started when a wave swept across Oklahoma
Comets Bizarre comet from another star system just spottedNational Geographic - Michael GreshkoDiscovered by an amateur astronomer, the inbound object is only the second of its kind yet detected. In the sleepy predawn hours of August 30, a Ukrainian amateur astronomer named Gennady Borisov spotted
Black Holes Baby black holes chirp as they’re born, just as Einstein predictedDigital Trends Scientists have heard a “baby” black hole for the very first time, and the sounds it makes is just like a chirp. Physicists from the Massachusetts …
Galaxies The universe might be acting weird. Cosmic 'lenses' may help reveal why.National Geographic - Michael GreshkoA new method for measuring how fast the universe is flying apart could help astronomers wrestling with a possible crisis in cosmology. From the moment it burst into existence more than 13 billion years
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoScience Water vapour discovered on potentially habitable 'super-Earth' exoplanetsciencefocus.com - PA Science Sophisticated tools were able to detect water vapour on K2-18b, an exoplanet located 110 light years away. Scientists in the UK have made a “world …
Science This new device generates light from the darkness of spacesciencemag.org - Robert F. Service Solar panels are great for powering devices during the day. But they don’t work after the sun goes down. Now, a new technology that takes advantage …
Singularity Artificial Intelligence Detects Heart Failure From One Heartbeat With 100% AccuracyForbes - Nicholas FearnDoctors can detect heart failure from a single heartbeat with 100% accuracy using a new artificial intelligence-driven neural network. That’s according to a recent study published in Biomedical Signal
Hubble The Hubble Space Telescope Just Gave Us A Jaw-Dropping New Video Of Saturn’s RingsForbes - Jamie CarterIt’s just water and ice. And maybe a few rocks. Despite their unremarkable make-up, Saturn’s rings are an iconic sight and have been since the late 1970s when first Pioneer 11, then Voyagers 1 and 2, the
Exoplanets Discovery! Water Vapor — and Likely Clouds, Rain, Too — Found on Strange Alien Planetspace.com - Chelsea Gohd In a major first, scientists have detected water vapor and possibly even liquid water clouds that rain in the atmosphere of a strange exoplanet that …
Hubble Water found on a potentially life-friendly alien planetNational Geographic - Michael GreshkoA super-Earth about 111 light-years away is “the best candidate for habitability that we know right now,” astronomers say. In a first for astronomers studying worlds beyond our solar system, data from
NASA NASA's WFIRST Space Telescope, a Refurbished Spysat Eye, Passes Early Reviewspace.com - Elizabeth Howell NASA's repurposed spy telescope is ready for the next stage of development. The $3.2 billion Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) recently …
Exoplanets Water Vapor Detected in the Atmosphere of an Exoplanet in the Habitable Zonesmithsonianmag.com - Jay Bennett Exoplanet science has literally opened new worlds to study, with planets populating the galaxy unlike anything in our small solar system. Hot …
Universe Quantum Physics Is Fine, Human Bias About Reality Is The Real ProblemForbes - Ethan SiegelBy creating two entangled photons from a pre-existing system and separating them by great distances, we can ‘teleport’ information about the state of one by measuring the state of the other, even from
Telescopes China’s colossal radio telescope just heard a bizarre signal in spacebgr.com - Mike Wehner China spent five years and close to $200 million to build its Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, nicknamed FAST. It was a monumental …
Science Lost continent revealed in new reconstruction of geologic historyNational Geographic - Robin George AndrewsA highly detailed re-creation of the past 240 million years showcases the tangled tale of an ancient continent dubbed Greater Adria. Take a hike along the mountain belts scattered around the Adriatic and
Aliens Aliens May Have Explored The Galaxy And Visited Earth Already, Scientists SayScienceAlert - MORGAN MCFALL-JOHNSEN The Milky Way could be teeming with interstellar alien civilizations, according to a new study. We just don't know about it because they haven't paid …
Albert Einstein 'Einstein's Biggest Blunder' May Have Finally Been Fixedspace.com - Tim Childers A single number, called the cosmological constant, bridges the microscopic world of quantum mechanics and the macroscopic world of Einstein's theory …
Chang’e4 China's Lunar Rover Has Found Something Weird on the Far Side of the Moonspace.com - Andrew Jones China's Chang'e-4 lunar rover has discovered an unusually colored, 'gel-like' substance during its exploration activities on the far side of the moon. …
India India loses communication with moon landersciencemag.org - Science News Staff Mission controllers lost communication with India’s Chandrayaan-2 lander this afternoon, shortly before it was expected to settle on the moon’s …
Technology NASA satellite spots a mysterious green light that quickly disappearedCNET - by Abrar Al-Heeti A green space blob flashed into existence and then... it was gone.
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