In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have used NASA’s powerful James Webb Space Telescope to detect the most distant merger of two massive black holes ever observed. This remarkable event, which occurred when the…
A study, published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, titled “Project Hephaistos—II. Dyson sphere candidates from Gaia DR3, 2MASS, and WISE”, presents a novel way of searching for technosignatures from…
As NASA sets its sights on establishing a permanent human presence on the Moon in the coming decades, the space agency is exploring innovative ways to transport materials and cargo across the lunar…
By Sarah Scoles In April 2023, a satellite the size of a microwave launched to space. Its goal: to get ready to mine asteroids. While the mission, courtesy of a company called AstroForge,…
Dakotah Tyler, University of California, Los Angeles Located 163 light-years from Earth, a Jupiter-sized exoplanet named WASP-69b offers astrophysicists a window into the dynamic processes that shape planets across the galaxy. The star…
During a recent interview at the Milken Institute’s global conference in Los Angeles, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk made some thought-provoking comments about humanity’s potential to one day discover traces of long-extinct alien societies….
Rocks strewn across an ancient Martian shoreline could suggest that the Red Planet was more reminiscent of Earth in its past, according to recent findings. These rocks, uncovered by NASA’s Curiosity rover, contain…
Researchers from the Universities of Waterloo and British Columbia have shed new light on the behavior of gravity on a cosmic scale, suggesting a possible “cosmic glitch” that could explain the strange observations…
NASA engineers are pushing aviation toward a more sustainable future with a scaled-down jet engine that fits comfortably on a desk. This advancement, represented by the less than 4.5-foot-long DGEN380 Aero-Propulsion Research Turbofan…
From discovering planets orbiting distant stars to investigating molecules in the atmospheres of these distant worlds, scientists have been searching for clues that could indicate the presence of life forms beyond our planet….