Like any good piece of high-tech hardware, NASA’s Perseverance rover features an Easter egg hidden in plain sight. Since landing on Mars on February 18th, NASA has been sharing thousands of photos captured by the rover. And if you look close enough, as Space did, you’ll catch a decal bolted to the top of its …
Astronomers might need to adjust their expectations for black holes. According to the New York Times, an international research team has determined that Cygnus X-1, one of the first discovered black holes, is considerably more massive than once thought. The binary-system based hole was originally pegged at ‘just’ 15 solar masses, but is now believed …
Larger black holes may be the usual attention-getters, but the smaller ones may be at least as important. A team using the Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a concentration of small black holes in the NGC 6397 globular star cluster (pictured above) 7,800 light-years away — the first to have its mass and extent recorded. …
China’s plans for interplanetary exploration just took a big stride forward. The Guardian reports that the country’s Tianwen-1 probe has returned its first photo of Mars, capturing a black-and-white snapshot from about 1.4 million miles away. It doesn’t compare to the more detailed pictures from other explorers (certainly not those on the ground), but that’s …
Does the US government know more about UFOs than they are letting on? Are there things that they might be hiding from the public? Those are some the questions that many people have asked and entertained for decades, and for those who consider themselves UFO buffs or enthusiasts, you’re in luck. Advertising This is because …
Some believe that it would be arrogant of us to believe and assume that in the entire universe, we are the only planet that has life on it. Given how expansive the universe is, it would not be a stretch to imagine that there could be some other lifeforms out there that we have yet …
While science has definitely helped explain a lot about the world, there are still plenty of things that we as human beings do not understand about the world or the universe in general. However, it seems that we might now be one step closer to learning more about our Earth’s moon. Advertising This is thanks …
Traveling in space to distant planets obviously takes time, a lot of time in fact, which means that it could take years for scientists to get the results back from their studies. However, recently astronomers have discovered a cosmic “superhighway” that could cut space travel time considerably. Advertising Referring to it as the “œcelestial autobahn,” …
Virgin Galactic’s reusable spaceflight system is made up of two vehicles: the SpaceShipTwo spaceplane and the WhiteKnightTwo carrier aircraft.Photo: Virgin Galactic Nearly two years after its last flight, Virgin Galactic—the space tourism venture founded by Richard Branson, another billionaire who loves space—aborted the scheduled test launch of its SpaceShipTwo commercial aircraft into suborbital space today …
Photo: MARK FELIX / Contributor (Getty Images) NASA announced on Wednesday the team of 18 astronauts — nine men and nine women — who have been selected to participate in the upcoming Artemis Moon landing missions. Advertisement The team includes astronauts of diverse backgrounds and experience levels, and counts among its ranks the first woman …