In October 2017, humanity caught its first-ever glimpse of an interstellar object – a visitor from beyond our solar system – passing nearby the Sun....
Binary black holes lens light so strongly it's difficult to simulate how they would appear. A new simulation shows us how strange and complex it can...
Space research, like much else in capitalist societies, is driven by funding.* The biggest source of that funding for that space research is usually...
AI is often touted as being particularly good at finding patterns amongst reams of data.* But humans also are extremely good at pattern recognition,...
Researchers at the Australian National University (ANU) are finding new uses for the laser-based technology that sharpens telescope imagery – called...
After examining data from the Gaia Observatory, a team of researchers found 12 more examples of the rare phenomenon known as "Einstein Crosses."
The...
After more than two years in orbit around asteroid Bennu, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is ready to come home. It’s bringing with it a pristine sample...
The Perseverance rover just provided its first Martian weather report (it was cold!), which could help inform future missions involving astronauts.
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So, you want to find dark matter, but you don’t know where to look? A giant planet might be exactly the kind of particle detector you need! Luckily,...
The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has long roots in human history.* With the advent of modern technologies, scientists were finally...
X-rays offer a unique insight into the astronomical world.  Invisible to the naked eye, most commonly they are thought of as the semi-dangerous...
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