Alien Oceans Could Hold Way More Life Than Earth’s Waters Ever Did, New Research Suggests By Brandon Specktor Alien worlds that favor strong ocean currents could be overflowing with life.
A Rail Gun the Size of Manhattan Could Reveal the Secrets of the Higgs Boson By Paul Sutter A giant linear collider the size of Manhattan could finally help us find new physics, scientists argue.
Sending Even a Tiny Message Through a Black Hole Would Make It Evaporate By Mara Johnson-Groh Sending a carrier pigeon across the cosmos would probably be a more reliable way to send a message.
Physicists Finally Narrowed Down the Mass of the Tiniest 'Ghost Particle' in the Universe By Rafi Letzter A new paper uses data about the structure of the entire universe to measure the mass of one of its smallest, hardest-to-study components.
Magnetars Can Crack Themselves Open and Bombard Earth with Gamma-Ray Flares, New Theory Suggests By Rafi Letzter Three giant gamma-ray flares have been detected in the last 40 years. A new paper on magnetars cracking themselves open could explain why.
Astronomers Create 8 Million Baby Universes Inside a Computer and Watch Them Grow. Here's What They Learned. By Tim Childers "UniverseMachine" churns out millions of unique universes to study dark matter and the evolution of galaxies.
Scientists Are Building a Real-Life Version of the Starship Enterprise's Life Scanner By Adam Mann A novel method relying on biochemistry could provide an unambiguous signal of life on other worlds.
We Could Detect Extraterrestrials Because They May Glow, Scientists Say By Yasemin Saplakoglu Whole planets may be covered with glowing red, blue and green life-forms.
We May Finally Know Where Vicious 'Black Widow' Pulsars Come From By Rafi Letzter These little "redback" and "black widow" stars have intensely magnetic poles, which could help explain how they eat their twins.
New US Space Command Will Launch Next Week, VP Pence Says By Hanneke Weitering The United States Space Command will officially be up and running by the end of the month, Vice President Mike Pence said today (Aug. 20) at a meeting of the National Space Council.
What Is the Universe Made of? By Mindy Weisberger What are the building blocks of everything that makes up the universe, and where did it all come from?
Astronomers Trained AI to find Ancient Galaxy Collisions from the Early Universe By Rafi Letzter There are bright lights all over the universe where galaxies are smashing together. And now astronomers have a new way to find them.
6 Reasons Astrobiologists Are Holding Out Hope for Life on Mars By Isobel Whitcomb There are some very good reasons to believe that primitive lifeforms may lurk on the Red Planet.
Something Weird Is Happening to the Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way By Meghan Bartels Astronomers have been watching the black hole at the center of our galaxy for 20 years, and in May, they saw something they'd never seen before.
There Are Thousands of Tardigrades on the Moon. Now What? By Mindy Weisberger What might it mean for the moon to have thousands of tardigrades as new inhabitants?
Astronomers Uncover 39 Ancient Galaxies — Moving So Fast That Even Hubble Can't See Them By Rafi Letzter There are ancient, massive galaxies haunting the dusty reaches of our universe, invisible to the Hubble Space Telescope. But now astronomers sifting through infrared data have discovered 39 of them.
'Interplanetary Shock' Seen for 1st Time By Meghan Bartels A team of four NASA spacecraft finally caught sight of a phenomenon scientists have been hunting for years: an interplanetary shock.
Space Dust from Ancient Supernova Found Hiding in Antarctica By Mindy Weisberger Researchers recently identified cosmic iron traces in snow that fell in Antarctica. Preserved in the snow was dust containing a rare isotope that originated in a supernova.
Cloaked Black Hole Found Hidden Behind Gas Cloud in Early Universe By Passant Rabie A cloaked black hole found lurking behind a cloud of gas dates to the early cosmic years of the universe.
