Cosmos
Are Titan’s Lakes Making Waves?
New findings on the "wave question" of Saturn's moon.
New Simulation Challenges the Way Black Holes Form and Evolve
Rather than being flat, black hole accretion disks would be bouncy and irregular.
Astronaut, Spationaut, Cosmonaut: What’s the Difference and Why?
The terms "astronaut," "spationaut," and "cosmonaut" refer to individuals who are trained and qualified to travel into space. The specific…
The First Super-Earths with Water Worlds Discovered: Kepler-138 System
The oceans on two adjacent super-Earths are 1,243 miles (2,000 km) in depth. Earth's oceans are only around 2.5 miles…
Geminids: The best meteor shower of every year
There is a deluge of meteors. The Geminids can be seen traveling across the sky beginning on December 6, St.…
820-foot megatsunami on Mars
Asteroid strikes into shallow Martian primordial oceans likely caused at least two megatsunamis in early Mars' history.
Unusual Star Death at the Black Hole
A plasma and radiation jet was generated when a star was split apart at the galactic center, and it was…
Artemis 1 breaks distance record
The Orion spacecraft, which was built for human space travel, has reached the last leg of its mission.
A new structure found in the Sun’s corona
There is a new web structure in the midst of the Sun’s corona that has just recently been seen by…
The formation of the solar system and our planet
Once upon a time, there was a whirling mass of gas and dust. As a result of this, the Sun…
How do protostars grow to become real stars?
The question is how protostars manage to pull enough matter toward them to form in the first place.
How quasars produce the brightest light in the universe
Trillions of electron volts of energy are released by quasars. All of the stars in a galaxy couldn’t produce as…