What Is A Super-Earth?
Super-Earth worlds are planets that are bigger than our Earth but smaller than Neptune. We don't have such planets in the Solar System.Aleksander Wolszczan...
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Finding Alien Life Around Dying Stars
Dying stars do host planets that have a chance for life. Alien life may be easiest to find around dying stars such as white dwarfs.The reason why alien lif...
NASA Brings Voyager 2 Back Online
NASA has fixed Voyager 2. The legendary spacecraft which is currently about 11.5 billion miles from Earth is fully back online.NASA launched its spacecraft...
Time Travel: Through The Wormhole
A wormhole is a valid solution to the equations of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity that act as a"tunnel" between two points in space-time.That tunn...
What Is Time? Is It What You Think It Is?
Time is something we perceive every day. However, it is not just the tick and tock and it certainly is not constant.Space is often described as three dimen...
What Are Quantum Black Holes?
While normal black holes can reach sizes of billions of solar masses, quantum black holes are microscopic, comparable in size to elementary particles.A typ...
Potential Super-Earth Found Orbiting Proxima Centauri
Astronomers have traced a signal they believe belongs to a super-Earth orbiting Proxima Centauri. But more observations are needed to confirm it.In 2016, a...
Strange Objects Found Near Our Central Black Hole
Astronomers from UCLA's Galactic Center Orbits Initiative have found some strange objects near the Milky Way's central black hole.It is the central superma...
Some Things Hubble Taught Us About The Universe
In April of this year, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope will celebrate its 30th anniversary. Here are some things we know thanks to Hubble.On 24 April 1990, t...
Vast Star Nursery Wave Found In Our Galaxy
A new map of the Milky Way reveals a huge star nursery wave. This large structure is made up of many interconnected "nurseries" where stars are born.Harva...