space

Laughing Gas Could Be the Key to Hunting Down Alien Life0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 17, 2023
You probably know nitrous oxide from the dentist’s office, but researchers say its presence in a planet’s atmosphere could signal life. No joke.

By David Aragorn
Is Planet Nine out there? This new telescope could finally settle the long-standing mystery 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 16, 2023
Its shiny new camera will capture the night sky like never before.

By David Aragorn
Massive eruption from icy volcanic comet detected in solar system0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 14, 2023
Astronomers observed a major eruption from a volcanic comet flying through the solar system, likely spewing more than 1 million tons of debris into space.

By David Aragorn
Lab-grown black hole may prove Stephen Hawking’s most challenging theory right0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- February 9, 2023
By using a chain of atoms to simulate a black hole’s event horizon, researchers have shown that Hawking radiation may exist just as the late physicist described.

By David Aragorn
‘Quantum time flip’ makes light move simultaneously forward and backward in time0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 7, 2023
The time-flipped photon can’t be used to restage “Back to the Future,” but it could help us figure out some of the universe’s most mysterious phenomena.

By David Aragorn
Scientists discover massive ‘extragalactic structure’ behind the Milky Way0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 29, 2022
An uncharted region of space known as the “zone of avoidance” lurks behind the Milky Way’s center – and astronomers just found an enormous, multi-galaxy structure there.

By David Aragorn
Earthly Microbes Might Survive on Mars for Hundreds of Millions of Years 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 8, 2022
An organism nicknamed “Conan the Bacterium” may have what it takes to live on Mars

By David Aragorn
Hubble Found an Eerie ‘Cosmic Keyhole’ Deep in Space And We’re in Awe0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 7, 2022
When it comes to dramatic and awe-inspiring pictures of space, few can contend with what appears to be a pic of, well, nothing at all: a fascinating image of what seems to be a hole in the fabric of space, taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

By David Aragorn
There May Be 4 Quintillion Alien Spacecraft Buzzing in Our Solar System0
- From Around the Web, Space, UFO News
- November 3, 2022
Five years ago a very strange object—maybe a thousand feet long, oblong, shiny and fast—streaked across space, tens of millions of miles from Earth. Its course and speed indicated it had come from outside the solar system. A visitor from another star.

By David Aragorn
Astronomers spot a monster black hole ‘practically in our backyard’0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 2, 2022
Black holes come in a variety of sizes, from stellar black holes a few times the mass of the sun all the way up to supermassive black holes, which are millions of times the mass of the sun and lurk at the heart of galaxies.

By David Aragorn