Planck Time and Length—Key Points to Help You Understand
We are used to living in a world of large, macroscopic things. Everything that the average person encounters during the…
We are used to living in a world of large, macroscopic things. Everything that the average person encounters during the…
Name and Budget Initially, the telescope bore the short but difficult to pronounce name NGST (Next Generation Space Telescope). In…
Hubble holds the record for the longest operation among space telescopes, operating in low-earth orbit for more than 31 years….
Astronomers have discovered the third appearance of a gravitationally lensed supernova explosion dubbed Supernova Requiem. The images of the phenomenon…
Can you tell where our planet is in the universe? Of course, planet Earth is in the Solar System, which in turn is in the Orion Arm, the small galactic arm of the Milky Way. Well, our own galaxy then? Did you know that it is part of the Laniakeа Supercluster along with tens of thousands of other galaxies?
Observations of thousands of galaxies made with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey telescope (pictured) have revealed a giant arc of…
The Chandra X-Ray Observatory was launched into space in 1999 and has served a total of almost 22 years in…
This is the best of Hubble. On April 24, 1990, NASA launched one of its most successful missions since the…
The Universe is home to truly gigantic objects. Planets, stars, galaxies, and clusters of galaxies – each of these can…
Andromeda is the closest neighboring galaxy to the Milky Way. Located in the constellation with the same name, it can…
A new theory proposes that primordial black holes – black holes that formed at the beginning of our universe –…
Yes, you read that correctly – scientists confirmed that a black hole is missing. And more curiously, not any black…
Usually, when astronomers talk about “neighboring galaxy“, they mean the Andromeda Galaxy, which is only 2.5 million light-years distant from…
Can artificial intelligence be aware of its own existence? In recent years, the internet has been replete with headlines like:…
Approximately 200,000 years ago, the early human brain evolved at an extreme rate, almost suddenly. What caused this major change?…
Does the universe resemble the human brain or the opposite? This has been suggested by a new bold study by…
The fact that the black holes do not allow the light to come out makes them difficult to observe. Scientists…
The truth is, we are still not entirely sure how our reality functions. Although complicated, physics is doing its best…
In the very beginning, a divine bass sound echoed in the universe. At least that’s the opinion of physicist John…
Breakthrough Listen is a 10-year-long program dedicated to the search for alien communications. While it is the most comprehensive program…
UFOs have become an actual thing. Go back some ten years ago, and speaking “I saw a UFO” would probably…
A group of scientists has detected four mysterious objects in deep space that are said to be “unlike anything we’ve…