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.
Tag: astronomy
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 ...
Mind-Blowing $1.4 billion Thirty Meter Telescope begins construction in Hawaii
After years of planning and engineering schemes, the construction of the $1.4 billion telescope in Hawaii has finally begun. The ...
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Scientist Interviews: Marie-Eve Naud [Astrobiology]
A while ago, we were telling you about the discovery of a huge exoplanet - a gas giant, found just 155 ...
Planet that shouldn’t exist baffles scientists
It's a big, bad, lava world - and according to what we know about astronomy, it simply shouldn't exist. [caption ...
NASA discovers surprise energy belt surrounding Earth
A ring of radiation that scientists knew nothing about fleetingly surrounded our planet last year, before being blown away by ...
This week in space pictures
It's been quite a week for space exploration and some truly remarkable pictures were taken, here's the best ones. The ...
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