Space
China builds artificial moon China has built an artificial moon on Earth that simulates low-gravity conditions – the first of its kind. The facility is expected to play a key role in China’s future lunar missions. Speaking on Tuesday, scientist Li Ruilin, from the China University of Mining and Technology, said that the artificial moon …
Monster’ black hole found in dwarf galaxy The newly discovered ‘supermassive’ black hole is ‘among the smallest’ of its kind, but could answer some big questions Astronomers have found a “supermassive” black hole containing around 200,000 times the mass of the Sun. This “monster” buried in the dust and gas of a dwarf galaxy could …
What they saw defied previous beliefs about how these stars behaved right before blowing up An animation of a self-destructing supergiant star and its collapse into a supernova. © Vimeo / Keck Observatory For the first time ever, scientists were able to track a red supergiant in real-time during its final 130 days, watching the …
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Mystery on Moon’s dark side solved A Chinese rover has finally made it close enough to explore an oddly-shaped object spotted on the far side of the Moon last year. The discovery was dubbed ‘mystery hut’ online. The image of a gray cube-shaped object on the Moon’s horizon was published by Our Space, a channel …
The gargantuan Bernardinelli-Bernstein comet will strafe Saturn’s orbit in 2031. Scientists are stoked. An enormous comet — possibly the largest one ever detected — is barreling toward the inner solar system with an estimated arrival time of 10 years from now, according to new research published on the preprint server arXiv.org. The comet, known as the …
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In the beginning, there was … well, maybe there was no beginning. Perhaps our universe has always existed — and a new theory of quantum gravity reveals how that could work. “Reality has so many things that most people would associate with sci-fi or even fantasy,” said Bruno Bento, a physicist who studies the …
We may soon be able to test one of Stephen Hawking’s most controversial theories, new research suggests. In the 1970s, Hawking proposed that dark matter, the invisible substance that makes up most matter in the cosmos, may be made of black holes formed in the earliest moments of the Big Bang. Now, three astronomers have developed a theory that explains …
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Webb telescope fully deployed in space – NASA Telescope opens its primary mirror nearly 1 million kilometers from Earth Two weeks after its launch, the James Webb Space Telescope has finally unfolded its primary mirror as it begins the final step of its deployment. The telescope is the most powerful device of its kind ever …
The cosmic shower will be easier to spot this year thanks to the new moon A meteor streaks past stars during the annual Quadrantid meteor shower in Qingdao © REUTERS/Stringer The Quadrantid meteor shower will peak on the night of January 2 and into the early morning hours of the next day, and it could …
