Was that a dropped call from ET?
Nobody thinks it was a phone call from ET, but radio astronomers admit that they have no explanation yet for a beam of radio waves that appears to have come…
This epic space cloud sums up our goodbye for 2020
Sometimes, the universe provides the perfect way to express our feelings. A space cloud 7,500 light-years away has given us a convenient goodbye that we can think of for an…
The Japanese solution to the problem of space waste is the wooden satellites that would burn on return
Japanese Researchers are working on satellite technology that would use woody components to eliminate excess Void Scrap, which allows things to burn when returned to Earth’s atmosphere, according to a…
Solar flares and wireless communications – how dangerous are our electronics?
On November 8, 2020, the sun exploded. Okay, so that’s a bit exciting (it blows up a lot) – but a particularly large sunspot called AR2781 produced a C5 solar…
Physicists are still hunting for primordial black holes to solve the dark matter problem
For a while now, physicists have been searching for the primitive black holesUFOs could have formed in the early universe and produced a whole host of cosmic tricks. Using a…
How voracious Antillans create killer sand traps | Science
Written by Emily HarowitzDecember 29, 2020 5:25 p.m. You’d never know it by looking at an adult antelope that resembles a dragonfly, but its wingless larvae – nail-sized eaters with…
A new astronomical cluster discovered by astronomers
Color image of galaxy density map at 0.36 redshift from Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) from eROSITA. The white circles mark the location of the clusters of the eight galaxies that make…
All of the dark matter in the universe may be primordial black holes – formed from the collapse of children’s universes shortly after the Big Bang
by Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe December 28, 2020 Small universes branching out of our universe shortly after the Big Bang appear to us as…
Space Pictures: The Best of 2020
There have been stunning cosmic photos to feed in 2020, from Hubble’s 30th birthday photo to daring sample shots of an asteroid. Here’s our pick of the year’s deals. Cosmic…
The discovery reinforces the theory that life on Earth arose from a mixture of RNA-DNA
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Chemists at Scripps Research have made a discovery that supports a surprising new vision of how life on our planet originated. In a study published in…