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After nearly 30 years of research, astronomers found that a star orbiting a black hole does so in a rosette shape, supporting Einstein's general relativity.

A Star Is Circling a Black Hole and Its Orbit Is Absolutely Nuts

By Dan Robitzski

The Pentagon put out a call for vendors to develop a quantum system that could track spacecraft traveling too far away to use GPS.

Quantum Physics

The Pentagon Wants Quantum Sensors to Track Faraway Spacecraft

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers think that a bizarre exoplanet called TOI-849b is the stripped core of a gas giant that for some reason or another lost its atmosphere.

Science & Energy

Bizarre Exoplanet Might Be a Gas Giant That Lost its Gas

By Dan Robitzski

NASA built an autonomous robot named BRUIE that may be able to hunt for signs of life on distant ocean worlds like Europa.

Science & Energy

Here’s the Robot NASA Wants to Use to Hunt Aliens on Ocean Worlds

By Dan Robitzski

New research on a bizarre nuclear reaction could explain why some stars explode like gigantic stellar thermonuclear bombs.

Science & Energy

Poison in the Hearts of Stars Can Make Them Explode

By Dan Robitzski

Just because you're holed up at home for the time being doesn't mean you can't help out with important scientific research.

Science & Energy

Astronomers Call on Quarantined Citizens to Hunt for Galaxies

By Dan Robitzski

The U.S. Space Force is scheduled to conduct its first launch on Thursday afternoon. It's expected to deliver the final part of a new communication network.

The US Space Force Is About to Finally Leave the Planet

By Dan Robitzski

After revisiting 34-year-old data. NASA made a shocking discovery: Uranus is leaking its gassy atmosphere out into space.

Science & Energy

NASA Data Shows Something Leaking Out of Uranus

By Dan Robitzski

A proposed mission would explore the first-ever object that astronomers spotted cruising into our solar system from interstellar space.

Proposed Mission Would Explore Interstellar Object ‘Oumuamua

By Jon Christian

Astronomers spotted a 13 billion year-old blazar given off by the most ancient supermassive black hole to be discovered yet.

Science & Energy

Astronomers: Here’s This Incredibly Ancient Supermassive Black Hole We Found

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new internal report, developing the rocket meant to bring crewmembers to the Moon in 2024 has NASA years behind and billions over budget.

NASA’s Own Report Admits Its Non-SpaceX Rocket Is a Disaster

By Dan Robitzski

Depending how they measure it, scientists get vastly different answers for the mass of the North Star. A rare cosmic fusion could be the problem.

Science & Energy

Scientists Still Can’t Tell How Big the North Star Is

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers discovered an exoplanet called WASP-76b with an extreme atmosphere: iron is vaporized in the day and rains back down at night.

Astronomers Found a Brutal Hell Planet Where It Rains Liquid Iron

By Dan Robitzski

Amazingly, the coronavirus outbreak also appears to be having an observable effect on the Earth's environment — and you can see it from space.

This Is What China’s Coronavirus Lockdowns Look Like From Space

By Jon Christian

For the first time, scientists identified a protein molecule in a meteorite. And they say they that it didn't come from Earth.

Scientists Discover Protein in a Meteorite

By Dan Robitzski

Space Force Lt. General David Thompson clarifies what, exactly, the new military branch does, and how it plans to work with private companies.

Science & Energy

Space Force Working “Pretty Closely With Elon Musk and SpaceX”

By Dan Robitzski

As crewed missions to space venture deeper and deeper, two scientists argue that space agencies ought not to ignore astronauts' human needs.

Science & Energy

Scientists: Unfortunately, Astronauts Will Need to Bone in Space

By Dan Robitzski

MIT researchers have a new plan to scout out and divert killer asteroids before they pose a threat. It boils down to knocking them off course with a rocket.

Science & Energy

MIT Proposes New Plans for Deflecting Killer Asteroids

By Dan Robitzski

It turns out that a thin coating of powdered rust could serve as a killer, lightweight shield against deadly cosmic radiation.

It Turns Out Rust Is… a Great Shield for Deadly Space Radiation

By Dan Robitzski

Christina Koch set a record spaceflight. This is what happened when she returned to her dog, who is, unlike its owner, an underachiever.

This Record-Breaking Astronaut’s Dog Is Really Glad to See Her. But.

By Foster Kamer

The asteroid belt will get turned into dust when, as the Sun is finally dying, it will get incredibly bright, and destroy ithe entire asteroid belt. Fun!

Science & Energy

In Its Dying Gasp, Our Sun Will Obliterate the Asteroid Belt

By Jon Christian

Axiom Space, the company that's developing a privately-owned "space hotel" module for the ISS, shared more details on when it plans to launch.

Plans Are Moving Ahead to Open a Space Hotel Attached to the ISS

By Dan Robitzski

Assuming the vacuum of space didn't prevent sound from traveling, what would the Sun sound like? Turns out, it might be rather annoying...

Science & Energy

If Sound Traveled Through Space, the Sun Would Be Extremely Annoying

A Brutal ‘Dead Star’ Is Stuck In a Whirlpool of Warped Spacetime

A Brutal ‘Dead Star’ Is Stuck In a Whirlpool of Warped Spacetime

By Dan Robitzski

There's a decent chance that two satellites will collide this evening, potentially releasing a cloud of hazardous debris into orbit.

Science & Energy

Two Satellites May Collide Today, Exploding Catastrophically

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists is exploring a bizarre idea: finding a way to build structures, circuitry, and other materials out of living fungal architecture.

These Researchers Want You to Live In a Fungus Megastructure

By Dan Robitzski

An experimental NASA program is tinkering with the idea of building a Mars or Moon base out of living mushrooms that astronauts would grow onsite.

NASA Wants to Grow a Moon Base Out of Mushrooms

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's new instrument, NEID, can measure the mass of a distant exoplanet with three times the sensitivity of any other equipment out there.

Science & Energy

Here’s How NASA’s New Machine Weighs Exoplanets

By Dan Robitzski

For the second time, LIGO researchers detected gravitational waves given off by a merging pair of neutron stars, but the collision challenges their models.

Science & Energy

Scientists Detect Epic Neutron Star Collision

By Dan Robitzski

China's world record, "alien-hunting" telescope, FAST, became fully operational on Saturday, quadrupling the amount of the universe astronomers can examine.

Science & Energy

China Finally Boots Up Colossal Alien-Hunting Radio Telescope

By Dan Robitzski

New research suggests that the Big Bang theory could be off: some assumptions about the early unvierse don't match the actual data.

Science & Energy

Another Astronomer Says the Big Bang Might Not Have Happened

By Dan Robitzski

NASA released a new panorama image of the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Aside from looking cool, it could help reveal how the galactic core operates.

Science & Energy

Check Out This Incredibly Beautiful New Image of Our Home Galaxy

By Dan Robitzski

For the second time ever, scientists found a repeating radio burst from deep space. This time, it came from a galaxy that resembles the Milky Way.

Science & Energy

Astronomers Capture Repeating Radio Burst From Spiral Galaxy

By Dan Robitzski

Intense cosmic rays given off by short-lived stars are bombarding a nearby galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud, from within.

Science & Energy

Intense Stellar Activity Is Ripping Apart a Nearby Galaxy

By Dan Robitzski

During their long-term mission aboard the International Space Station, a NASA astronaut developed a blood clot in the jugular vein of their neck.

A NASA Astronaut Got a Blood Clot In Space

By Victor Tangermann

The radioactivity from a nuclear blast in space could disable crucial satellites, so the military is trying to find a way to scrub them clean.

The Military Is Unprepared for Nuclear Strikes on Satellites

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists just shared new information on the bizarre class of exoplanets that they'e named "super-puffs" due to their cotton candy-like fluffiness.

Science & Energy

These Rare Exoplanets Have the “Density of Cotton Candy”

By Dan Robitzski

NASA just released an image of a "cosmic candy cane" in the center of the galaxy. The unusually shaped cloud is likely linked to active star formation.

Science & Energy

Scientists Discover “Cosmic Candy Cane” in Milky Way Galaxy

By Dan Robitzski

CIMON-2, the new version of the International Space Station's (ISS) bizarre, spherical robot assistant, should be better at picking up on emotional cues.

The International Space Station’s Robot Got an Emotional Upgrade

By Dan Robitzski

NASA recently spotted yet another gigantic storm on Jupiter's south pole, bringing the total count up to seven swirling vortices.

Science & Energy

Check Out This Hypnotic Array of Colossal Storms on Jupiter

By Dan Robitzski

NASA just released a new image, the clearest yet, of 2I/Borisov, the second ever interstellar visitor we've seen enter our solar system.

Science & Energy

NASA Releases New Image of Interstellar Visitor

By Dan Robitzski

New research reveals that Mars auroras — the Red Planet's version of the Northern Lights, are far more common than previously thought.

Science & Energy

Majestic Auroras Sweep the Martian Sky Almost Every Day

By Dan Robitzski

A proposed NASA space telescope called HabEx would use a gigantic sail to filter out the light from distant stars while hunting new exiplanets.

Science & Energy

Scientists Want a Giant Folding Space Telescope to Find Earth 2.0

By Dan Robitzski

A new survey of the center of the Milky Way challenges what astronomers have long thought about how stars formed in the region.

Science & Energy

Astronomers May Have Been Wrong About The Milky Way’s History

By Dan Robitzski

Ad Astra CEO and former NASA astronaut Franklin Chang Diaz is building a plasma rocket engine that he thinks is our best bet to send people to Mars.

A Former NASA Astronaut Is Building a Plasma-Powered Mars Rocket

By Dan Robitzski

For the first time, NASA built a complete map of the surface of a neutron star, giving astronomers a new resource as they try to understand the cosmos.

Science & Energy

Stare Into the Brutal Maw of This Barbarous Neutron Star

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists just spotted MAMBO-9. The ancient galaxy's light just reached Earth after a 13 billion year-long journey through space.

Science & Energy

Scientists Spot One of the Most Distant Galaxies Ever: MAMBO-9

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists thought they ruled out dark matter as the source of bizarre cosmic gamma rays coming from the core of the Milky Way. New evidence disagrees.

Science & Energy

MIT: Dark Matter At Our Galaxy’s Core May Be Blasting Gamma Rays

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists wants to colonize and populate another world to protect humanity from Earth's eventualy demise or destruction.

Scientists Are Planning a 1,000 Year Trip to Another Planet

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists have a new guess for what triggers white dwarf stars to blow up in supernovae: tiny black holes made of dark matter growing in their cores.

Science & Energy

New Theory: Dark Matter Black Holes Are Detonating Stars

By Dan Robitzski

British clothing design firm Vollebak devised a futuristic hoodie that could help astronauts sleep while drifting through space inside a cramped spacecraft.

This Futuristic Space Hoodie is a “Self-Contained Microhabitat”

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers discovered 19 new galaxies that appear to be missing their dark matter. The discovery challenges our models of how galaxies form.

Science & Energy

19 Newly Discovered Galaxies Appear to Be Missing Dark Matter

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's exoplanet-hunting satellite TESS captured footage of a comet suddenly exploding in a bizarre phenomenon called a comet outburst.

Science & Energy

Watch NASA’s New Footage of a Comet Exploding

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers developed a new trick that will help them determine whether so-called Earth-like exoplanets actually have their own atmospheres.

Science & Energy

Scientists’ New Trick Can Tell if an Exoplanet Has an Atmosphere

By Dan Robitzski

New studies suggest that planet-wide dust storms and gigantic plumes called dust towers could have sucked up the planet's surface water.

Science & Energy

NASA Suggests Giant Dust Storms Blew Mars’ Water Into Space

By Dan Robitzski

NASA is about to test a prototype cosmic radiation-blocking vest by strapping it to a dummy and sending ti around the Moon.

Science & Energy

NASA Is Sending Dummies Around the Moon to Test Cosmic Radiation

By Dan Robitzski

The companies vying to be the first to launch a space hotel find themselves facing major regulatory and financial hurdles.

The Race is Heating Up to Open the First Space Hotel

By Dan Robitzski

Roscosmos announced plans to build an observatory on its planned Moon base so that it can better spot potentially dangerous asteroids approaching Earth.

Science & Energy

Russia Wants to Build an Observatory on the Moon

By Dan Robitzski

A study suggests that there could be thousands of giant exoplanets and planets that form around and orbit a supermassive black hole.

Science & Energy

New Calculations: Black Holes Could Have Thousands of Planets

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists discovered fossils left behind in an ancient meteorite that reveal how ice was distributed throughout the early, still-forming solar system.

Science & Energy

Scientists Find “Ice Fossils” in Ancient Meteorite

By Dan Robitzski

While the idea of building a space colony or terraforming a new planet for humanity to colonize sounds intriguing, it's not a sustainable goal.

Professor: Terraforming a New Home Planet Would Be Dangerous

By Dan Robitzski

A new deepfake shows what it would have looked like if the Apollo 11 mission failed and then-president Nixon had to deliver the backup speech he had ready.

Science & Energy

MIT Deepfake Shows Nixon Sadly Saying the Moon Astronauts Died

By Dan Robitzski

The Moon is covered in lunar swirls — magnetic anomalies that could act as natural shields from dangerous cosmic radiation.

Science & Energy

Spiral Formations on the Moon Appear to Deflect Cosmic Rays

By Dan Robitzski

A doctoral candidate has a unique idea for how to colonize Mars: send bacteria to digest the soil and churn out useable raw materials for future settlers.

Unusual PhD Thesis: Let’s Use Bacteria to Colonize Mars

By Dan Robitzski