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The Closest Star to Our Own Solar System Just Got a Lot More Interesting
Science Alert - SIGNE DEAN
There could be many more planets over there! Astronomers have announced they've discovered a ring of cold cosmic dust surrounding the closest star to …
Physics
We may finally understand the speed of gravity
futurism.com - Christianna Reedy
Advent of Astronomy The ability to detect gravitational waves is rapidly propelling us into a new era of both astronomy and physics. New instruments …
Nearby neutron star collision could cause calamity on Earth |
Salon - Jon Wenz
Despite being strong enough to shake the universe, the gravitational waves from even a nearby merger of two large black holes would still be scarcely noticeable, because the shaking manifests on microscopic
What Is The Greatest Wrong Theory In Physics?
Forbes - Chad Orzel
A day or two ago, Sabine Hossenfelder wrote a blog post explaining why neutrinos point to physics beyond the Standard Model. When I linked to her post on Twitter, I repeated a flippant line I sometimes
Neil deGrasse Tyson says this is the absolute fastest a car can accelerate
Mashable - Matthew Kline
Neil deGrasse Tyson, Chuck Nice, and Gary O'Reilly talk about how tires are designed to maximize grip, and how that affects a car's acceleration and …
How the Hidden Higgs Could Reveal Our Universe’s Dark Sector
Quanta Magazine - Bob Henderson
The universe has not cooperated with physicists’ hopes. In desperation, many are looking for new ways to search for surprises at the Large Hadron …
Confirmed: A Huge Gravitational Wave Announcement Is Happening
Science Alert - FIONA MACDONALD
What a time to be alive. Update 27/09/17: The biggest rumour did not pan out, but the LIGO team announced something just as amazing - the most …
Hubble
27 stunning photos of our universe
Business Insider - Lucy Yang
On August 21, you'll be able to stream the "first coast-to-coast total solar eclipse in 99 years" live on Facebook. If you live in the US, you can also just walk outside and look up — as long as you're
We Vastly Underestimated How Many Black Holes Are Lurking in Space
Science Alert - PETER DOCKRILL
Gravitational waves don't lie. When scientists finally detected the existence of gravitational waves last year, it wasn't just a landmark moment …
Astronomers Capture Wild Intergalactic Gamma Ray Burst As it Happens
Gizmodo - Ryan F. Mandelbaum
On June 25, 2016 at 6pm ET, a flash of visible light appeared in the sky that, depending on your location, could have been visible with binoculars. …
The Strange Similarity of Neuron and Galaxy Networks - Issue 50: Emergence
nautil.us - Franco Vazza & Alberto Feletti
Christof Koch, a leading researcher on consciousness and the human brain, has famously called the brain “the most complex object in the known …
The Next Step In The Search For Aliens Is A Huge Telescope And A Ton Of Math
FiveThirtyEight - By Ramin Skibba
Aliens could be hiding on almost any of the Milky Way’s roughly 100 billion planets, but so far, we haven’t been able to find them (dubious claims to …
Spiral arms allow school children to weigh black holes
eurekalert.org
Astronomers from Swinburne University of Technology, Australia, and the University of Minnesota Duluth, USA, have provided a way for armchair …
Space Station
Nasa is releasing its old research videos. Here are nine of the best
Wired UK - Matt Burgess
Nasa has a rich and varied history. Its research and development arms have led to commercial spaceflight being a reality and its engineers have …
The Next Major Blackout on Earth Will Be Caused by This Natural Source
futurism.com - Chelsea Gohd
Complete Darkness In 1977, New York went dark in what many have called the most severe blackout in American history. Panic ensued, shop owners torched …
Magnetism
NASA's Juno Spacecraft Unveils Jupiter's Deep Mysteries
kqed.org - Ben Burress
On July 10, NASA's Juno spacecraft flew closer to Jupiter's famous "Great Red Spot" than ever before, capturing images of the ancient and gargantuan …
Here’s What a Rocket Launch Looks Like from Space
mentalfloss.com - BY Kate Horowitz
There are approximately 7.5 billion humans on the planet. Of those, fewer than 550 have had the opportunity to look down on Earth from space. Fewer …
The Life Code: A Sky Full of Secrets
sbs.com.au
WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should exercise caution when viewing this article as it contains names and images of deceased …
Solar Eclipse Day Could Resemble 'Zombie Apocalypse'
NBC News
Space When millions of people want to see a once-in-a-lifetime eclipse, massive crowds along the eclipse path could present challenges you haven't considered. One month from today, the total solar eclipse
11 Scientific advances of the last 100 years gave us our entire Universe
medium.com - Ethan Siegel
From a Universe that went no bigger than our Milky Way to the trillions of galaxies in our expanding Universe, our knowledge increased one step at a …
Catch a Speeding Star: High-Velocity Milky Way Objects Tracked (Animation)
space.com - Kasandra Brabaw, Space.com Contributor
A new animated video from the European Space Agency shows how the stars in Earth's galaxy have moved over the last million plus years — and tracks …
Where did the antimatter go?
CNN - By Don Lincoln
(CNN) — You've no doubt heard of Einstein's famous equation E = mc2, and you may well have heard that it means that matter can be converted to energy and back again. That statement is true but incomplete.
'We Don't Planet' Episode 13: Spiral Galaxies
space.com - Paul Sutter, Astrophysicist
Our Milky Way is one of many spiral galaxies in the universe. These collections of stars are characterized by their namesake arms that appear to wind …
Fastest Stars in the Milky Way Are Galactic Fugitives
space.com - Hanneke Weitering, Space.com Staff Writer
The speediest stars zipping through the Milky Way galaxy are runaways from a small neighboring galaxy, according to a new study. Scientists said they …
How A Solar Eclipse First Proved Einstein Right
Forbes - Ethan Siegel
Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity is our most successful, most sophisticated theory of gravity of all-time. Explaining everything from GPS signals to gravitational redshift, from gravitational
Tying loose ends? Gravitational waves could solve string theory, study claims
The Guardian - Hannah Devlin Science correspondent
New paper suggests that the hotly contested physics thesis, which involves the existence of six ‘extra dimensions’, may be settled by cutting-edge laser detectors String theory makes the grand promise
Dark Matter
The Universe Itself May Be Unnatural
Forbes - Ethan Siegel
When it comes to the physical Universe, we fully expect things obeying the same fundamental laws to unfold in similar fashions, and to be comparable to one another today. By the same token, if they obey
Discovery Of A Young, Dead Galaxy Creates A Huge Puzzle For Astronomers
Forbes - Ethan Siegel
The life-cycle of a galaxy is straightforward and inevitable: normal and dark matter gravitationally attract, creating a large collection of mass. The normal matter collects in the center, forming stars