Science Lunar Mysteries That Science Still Needs to SolveWIRED - Daniel Oberhaus This story is part of a series commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission. Picture this: After a three-day journey from Earth, Buzz …
Hubble Mystery of universe’s expansion deepens with new cosmic calculation | New Scientistnewscientist.com - By Leah Crane The question of how fast the universe is expanding just keeps getting more confusing. Our two main methods of measuring the acceleration of the …
Space India's Highly Exciting Moon Mission Has Hit a Snag, But All Is Not LostScienceAlert - NIHA MASIH India called off the launch of its much-awaited second lunar mission shortly before liftoff Monday, citing a technical snag, in a setback for the …
Science Meteors explain differences between Earth and moon elementsfuturity.org - Andy Fell-UC Davis Millions of recreated meteor impacts may resolve the difference in ‘iron-loving’ elements on the Earth and the moon. As our solar system was forming …
Science Rocks cooled the whole planet 15 million years agofuturity.org - Peter Rüegg-ETH Zurich New indications as to what initiated a long phase of cooling in Earth’s climate and kept it going may debunk a long-held theory about the pre-ice-age …
Science Alien moon likely seen forming in first-of-its-kind pictureNational Geographic - Nadia DrakeA dusty shroud around a far-off planet may represent the humble beginnings of a brand-new moon. In a possible first, a giant, faraway planet may have been caught in the act of growing moons. Seen in an
Dark Matter Stanford study suggests dark matter is lighter and more elusive than previously thoughtnewatlas.com - Michael Irving Although it makes up about 85 percent of all matter in the universe, dark matter is frustratingly hard to pin down. In order to figure out what it …
Science Planet’s dusty disk mirrors origins of Jupiter’s moonsfuturity.org - Jade Boyd-Rice Astronomers have made the first observations of a circumplanetary disk of gas and dust similar to the one that scientists believe birthed the moons …
Supernovae 'Renegade' White Dwarf Survived a Supernova. Now It's Warping the Little Dipper Before Our Eyes.space.com - Brandon Specktor There's a rebellious, half-dead star in the Little Dipper that's hellbent on escaping our galaxy — and now, astronomers have an idea why. The star, a …
Lunar Eclipse When an eclipse meets a full moon (like this week), strange things can happenWell+Good - by Jennifer racioppi There are two big cosmic happenings this week: an eclipse and a full moon. And yep, they’re happening at the same time. (Mark your calendars for …
Lunar Eclipse Everything to Know About July's Full Buck Moon — the First Full Moon of SummerTIME - Madeline FitzgeraldThe so-called Full Buck Moon is on the horizon — so get ready to enjoy the show. As astronomy buffs might already know, this month’s full moon is due on July 16, and brings with it a partial lunar eclipse
Play buttonAlbert Einstein The Simple Idea Behind Einstein’s Greatest DiscoveriesWIRED - K. C. Cole The flashier fruits of Albert Einstein’s century-old insights are by now deeply embedded in the popular imagination: Black holes, time warps and …
Science Scientists unveil the first-ever image of quantum entanglementphys.org - University of Glasgow For the first time ever, physicists have managed to take a photo of a strong form of quantum entanglement called Bell entanglement—capturing visual …
Space Telescope Russia launches space telescopephys.org Russia launched a space telescope Saturday from the cosmodrome in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, a joint project with Germany intended to replace one it lost …
Apollo Missions The Apollo Mission Had No Toilet. Here's How The Astronauts Went to The BathroomScienceAlert - HILARY BRUECK Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin may have been the first people to set foot on the lunar surface when Apollo 11 landed there 50 years ago, …
Space The Hubble Telescope Might Have Found The Weirdest Black Hole to DateScienceAlert - David Nield Something strange is happening 130 milling light-years away in spiral galaxy NGC 3147: there's a thin disc of material surrounding its small and …
Albert Einstein Einstein called it 'spooky action.' Here's an image of it for the first timeCNET - by Eric Mack Quantum entanglement is one of the weirdest phenomena in all of science, so physicists tried to take a picture of it.
NASA Why Everyone Wants to Go Back to the MoonThe New York Times - By KENNETH CHANG[Read all Times reporting on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. | Sign up for the weekly Science Times email.] In January, Chang’e-4, a Chinese robotic spacecraft including a small rover,
Play buttonMilky Way Galaxy An incredible new animation shows where, when, and how astronomers found 4,000 planets beyond our solar systemBusiness Insider - Dave MosherEarth is not alone, and a stunning new animation created using NASA data beautifully illustrates that point. There may be trillions of other planets in our galaxy, the Milky Way (which itself is one of
Atoms What happens when you explode a chemical bond?phys.org - Robert Sanders On bright summer days, the sunlight all around us is breaking bad by breaking bonds. Chemical bonds. Ultraviolet light shatters the links between …
Hubble Space Telescope Hubble spies something mysterious around a supermassive black holeCNN - By Ashley Strickland, CNN(CNN) — There's something unusual happening at the center of the spiral galaxy NGC 3147, and the Hubble Space Telescope caught a good look. The galaxy, which is 130 million light-years away, contains supermassive
Hubble Why can’t we nail down how fast the universe is expanding?futurity.org - Lawrence Goodman-Brandeis The fate of the universe rests on the Hubble constant, but figuring out its value has proven a serious challenge. “The Hubble constant is a measure of …
Apollo Missions The iconic photo that summed up our place in the UniverseBBC Future - Richard HollinghamSome astronauts didn’t want to bring TV cameras on board – but the footage captured has gone down as some of the most memorable in human history. Christmas Eve 1968, the crew of Apollo 8 – Frank Borman,
A Different Kind of Theory of EverythingThe New Yorker - Natalie WolchoverPhysicists used to search for the smallest components of the universe. What if that’s not the point? In 1964, during a lecture at Cornell University, the physicist Richard Feynman articulated a profound
Space NASA Telescopes Have Revealed The Atmosphere of a Strange Hybrid ExoplanetScienceAlert - EVAN GOUGH Out there in space is an unusual exoplanet name Gliese 3470 b (GJ 3470 b.) It's a strange world, kind of like a hybrid between Earth and Neptune. It …
Photons If You Thought Quantum Mechanics Was Weird, You Need to Check Out Entangled TimeScienceAlert - Elise Crull In the summer of 1935, the physicists Albert Einstein and Erwin Schrödinger engaged in a rich, multifaceted and sometimes fretful correspondence …
