Written by: Christina Pulluck Posted on: November 3, 2024Could Billion-Year-Old Rocks Be the Missing Link to Proving Dark Matter Exists?
For decades, dark matter has been like the ghost at the cosmic party—everyone’s pretty sure it’s there, but nobody can actually see it. Despite all our fancy telescopes and particle accelerators, we haven’t detected a single speck of this mysterious “stuff” directly. But now, researchers…
Written by: River Knicks Posted on: October 5, 2019The hypothetical ninth planet could be a black hole
It is possible that the planet hiding in the confines of our solar system is not one: American astrophysicists put forward the idea that it could be a very small black hole. Scientists have been observing for a few years a very particular phenomenon in…
Written by: Mitch Evans Posted on: September 10, 2019Hubble Captures Beautiful Planetary Nebula Image
The Hubble Space Telescope of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the European Space Agency (ESA) has resulted in the creation of a new image of NGC 2022, a planetary nebula located more than 5000 light-years away from the Earth, in the constellation…
Written by: River Knicks Posted on: September 3, 2019First Ever Picture of a Black Hole Scoops $3-Million Prize
The 347 scientists who collaborated to produce the first image of a black hole last April were honored on Thursday with the Breakthrough Prize, a US $ 3 million prize that is presented as the “Oscars of Science”. The International Event Horizon Telescope team, led…
Written by: Mitch Evans Posted on: March 30, 2019The two smaller moons of Pluto revealed
Images from the recent passage of the New Horizons probe near the dwarf planet revealed intriguing shapes on the surface of two of its moons, Nix and Hydra. The smaller satellites of Pluto had never been seen in such detail. In these photographs, published Tuesday…