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Jaw-Dropping Discovery: The Most Powerful Particle Accelerator is of Extraterrestrial Origin

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) from Geneva (Switzerland) and operated by CERN is one of humanity’s most exciting inventions. But even so, it pales by comparison with another structure that has pretty much the same mission: accelerating particles near to…

January 30, 2021 · by Anna Daniels · 0

Astronomers Likely Discovered The Birth Of An Exoplanet!

Planets are formed in massive swirling disks of gas and dust nearby young stars. Astronomers found many of these protoplanetary disks, and they often observe concentric gaps in the disks, that looks a lot like the grooves on vinyl disks.…

January 29, 2021 · by Asheley Rice · 0

Teenager Student Discovers New Planet – Days After Joining A NASA Internship

NASA’s planet-hunter satellite (known as TESS) found a new exoplanet that orbits two stars (instead of one, as regular planets do), and the fantastic news is that a high school intern made the discovery! The announcement resembles Luke Skywalker’s home…

January 29, 2021 · by Asheley Rice · 0

This Star Baffles the Minds of Astronomers as It Survives Being Swallowed by a Black Hole

Black holes burst out huge flares of X-rays when they guzzle up matter from their surroundings. But if such flares are spewing forth with clockwork regularity every nine hours, as in the case of a black hole located 250 million…

January 29, 2021 · by Anna Daniels · 0

Scientists Find Peculiar Connection Between People’s Sleeping Schedules and the Full Moon

Who said that all those horror movies with werewolves aren’t inspired from reality at least a bit? We all know that the Moon plays a huge role in Earth’s habitability by moderating our planet’s wobble on its axis, creating tides,…

January 29, 2021 · by Anna Daniels · 0

The OSIRIS-REx Mission of NASA Prepares for Asteroid Departure

Bennu is one of the most intriguing asteroids out there, and there’s no wonder why NASA deployed its OSIRIS-REx mission to gather data from the space object. But it’s almost the end of the road for the spacecraft – while…

January 27, 2021 · by Anna Daniels · 0

Extreme Black Holes Have This Mind-Blowing Feature

You might have read a lot about black holes these days, but we bet you didn’t read about this strange feature that some of them have. As you probably know by now, black holes are some of the most mysterious…

January 27, 2021 · by Rada Mateescu · 0

What to Look for in a Drug Treatment Center

It doesn’t matter if you’re seeking help at a drug treatment center for yourself, your teen, or someone else in your life, it’s critical to do so in a fast and efficient manner. This leads to an important question: what…

January 27, 2021 · by Asheley Rice · 0

The Largest Sea of One of Saturn’s Moons Is Unexpectedly Deep

Titan is one of the largest space objects that revolve around Saturn, the unmistakable gas giant. Other than being the second-largest moon in the Solar System, Titan is also remarkable because it’s the only known object besides Earth that shows…

January 27, 2021 · by Anna Daniels · 0

Study Shows That Global Ice Loss Speeds Up Alarmantly

The current loss rate is in line with the worst-case scenarios in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The melting of ice across Earth speeds up at a never-before-seen rate, a new study published in the journal The Cryosphere says.…

January 26, 2021 · by Asheley Rice · 0

New Skull Of Tube-Crested Dinosaur Shows The Development Of A Peculiar Crest

The first new skull discovered in nearly a hundred years from a rare species of the fantastic tube-crested dinosaur known as Parasaurolophus was recently announced in the journal Peer J. The exquisite preservation of the skull, particularly the peculiar tube-shaped…

January 26, 2021 · by Asheley Rice · 0

Newfound ‘Hot Jupiter’ Puzzles Astronomers by Lacking Clouds

For recent years, astronomers had been hunting down exoplanet with powerful telescopes. Not too many decades ago, scientists weren’t completely sure that there are any planets beyond our own solar system. Meanwhile, thousands of such space objects were discovered, and…

January 26, 2021 · by Anna Daniels · 0

Climate Change Threatens Water and Food Supply on Earth

Climate change is one of those issues that we cannot neglect nor procrastinate anymore. According to a new study published in Nature Climate Change, climate change will be the culprit for Earth’s tropical rain belt that will cover about two-thirds of…

January 25, 2021 · by Jeffrey Olmsted · 0

NASA Plans to Build Earth’s Largest Telescope on the Moon

Our natural satellite can help humanity in many more ways than anyone would have dared to even imagine a few decades ago. Returning humans to the Moon for building a colony there is a great idea, but sending machines to…

January 25, 2021 · by Jeffrey Olmsted · 0

The Unique Star System With Six Suns Leaves Astronomers Speechless

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), the all-sky survey mission that aims to discover thousands of exoplanets from nearby star systems, is now the culprit for a discovery that defies all expectations. While a mysterious source of starlight was brightening…

January 25, 2021 · by Anna Daniels · 0