Rogue Planets Could Outnumber Stars in the Milky Way
We might have to revise the commonly accepted image of planets orbiting a parent star.
Tag: astronomy
This is the best place in the world to see the cosmos at night — if you can bear it
Better get your cold weather gear if you are planning to go there
What’s My Age Again? New Discoveries May Spark a Rethink of Galaxy Formation
A trifecta of recent discoveries has challenged models of galactic evolution, suggesting that galaxies could have formed much sooner in ...
Focusing on Arrokoth promises to reveal the Kuiper Belt’s secrets
The results from New Horizon's New Year's Day Flyby of Kuiper Belt Object Arrokoth are in, and it could just ...
New European exoplanet-hunting telescope launches into space
The ESA’s CHEOPS telescope has finally launched kick-starting the next phase in exoplanet investigations.
Astronomers concerned over Elon Musk’s plans to launch 42,000 satellites
Only 122 satellites have already been launched and the impact is already evident, they claim.
Molten exoplanets may explain the formation of Earth-like worlds
The study of molten exoplanets around Sun-like stars may provide answers as to the formation of Earth-like planets and the ...
How Japanese astronomers discovered the most distant object in the Kuiper Belt with a $3,000 telescope
This is a real victory for little projects.
Mercury is the planet closest to Earth — contrary to popular belief
There's also a whirly-dirly corollary associated with this new method.
Steam Power Might Help in Space Exploration
NASA is funding a steam-powered spacecraft.
Saturn’s moon Titan has rainfall and seasons
It's raining hydrocarbon on Titan.
Ancient cave paintings may be sign of prehistoric astronomy
These ancient people were much more savvy than we suspected.
How many galaxies are there?
Talk about a big count!
Astronomers discover a clump of black holes around our galaxy’s center
For the first time, astronomers have managed to confirm the existence of a black hole population surrounding the core of ...
Scientists use astronomy software to protect endangered creatures from poachers
Drones are hot on the poachers' hot traces.
Neptune’s Great Dark Spot is also shrinking
Another one bites the dust.
Mayans may have been better at math and astronomy than we thought
Anthropologists have shown that Mayan tablets of math and astronomy have been greatly underestimated.
Observing Alien Armageddon could be our first sign of advanced civilizations in space.
It may be possible to observe the presence of an advanced alien civilization by the effects produced if that civilization ...
Something is blocking light from a distant star, and one of the possibilities is an alien structure
It's likely not aliens, but it could be - and it's really, really strange.
NASA wants to take a piece of an asteroid and make it a moon of the Moon
It almost sounds too cheesy to be true: NASA wants to send a shuttle to an asteroid, pluck a piece ...