Astronomers spot largest potentially hazardous asteroid detected in last eight years
Twilight observations with the US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a Program of NSF’s NOIRLab, have enabled astronomers to…
NASA terminates infrared eyes to cosmos and space telescope
This composite image made available by NASA shows a neutron star, center, left behind by the explosion from the original star’s death in the constellation Taurus, observed…
Chinese researchers develop a quantum processor that is 60,000 times faster than modern supercomputers
The race is on to develop a quantum computer that can outpace a conventional supercomputer, and researchers from around the world are full-steam ahead. If scaled to adequate…
The Direct Fusion Drive That Could Get Us to Saturn in Just 2 Years
According to experts, the right kind of propulsion technology might transport spacecraft to Saturn in about two years. The direct fusion drive (DFD), a concept being explored by Princeton…
Massive stars emit a warning signal before going supernova
Massive stars (typically weighing from 8 to 20 solar masses) will become a hundred times fainter in visible light, before going supernova. The universe is a strange…
Scientists spar over underground lakes on Mars
The debate over the existence of underground water on Mars is heating up, even though some scientists argue it’s too cold there. Others, meanwhile, say there’s now…
Moon Village: Humanity’s first step toward a lunar colony?
Location, location, location Currently, stakeholders plan to build Moon Village near the lunar south pole. In particular, they want to target somewhere close to the rim of Shackleton…
Marsquakes reveal new impact crater forming and modern magma
As it slowly dies, NASA’s InSight Mars lander has made two major new discoveries recently. By sensing seismic activity from the Red Planet, the craft has now…
Scientists May Have Unwittingly Spotted Planet Nine in Our Solar System
Planet Nine continues to “hide in the shadows,” whether it is real or not. Now, scientists have a new way to look into the object in space…
Theoretical physicists assert that there are two dimensions to time
As science fiction would have you believe, you can’t really go to “another dimension.” Dimensions are more about how we see the world. But some things point…