This ambitious team wants to deploy a test to potentially use a new form of matter to space travel in the future: Follow Dr. Ben Longmier and his team into the rugged Alaskan wilderness on a quest to build a whole new type of rocket engine. Their goal is to test sensitive components by launching…
New Planet Is 11 Times The Size Of Jupiter
This new planet is bizarre and may have a lot of answers in terms of our own solar system formation: The Gemini Planet Imager has discovered and photographed its first planet, a methane-enshrouded gas giant much like Jupiter that may hold the key to understanding how large planets form in the swirling accretion disks around…
An Extra Planet In Our Solar System A Long Time Ago…Wait What?
Apparently there is a theory that we had a large planet in our solar system billions of years ago. Where did it go and how did they come to this conclusion? This is the theory proposed by David Nesvorny from the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, in The Astronomical Journal, and reported by Science Magazine and New…
Are Space And Time One Continuum?
Space, time, the theory of relativity and the 4th dimension. These concepts are taken mostly to be fact except when we reach quantum mechanics and things get even more interesting. Here is a brief refresher on Einstien’s work in this area and a video discussing the concept of space and time as one continuum. “Einstein’s Dream,”…
70,000 Years Ago When a Real Shooting Star Passed by at Close…
uh did you know about THIS one… Apparently astronomers figured out something not a lot of people are aware of. A shooting star passed us by. Like super close and they used some complicated formulas to figure this out. Here is a bit on how they calculated the position of the star that came so…
They Just Found The Smallest (Of The Massive) Black Holes
This discovery at first glance seems contradictory although the implications may be important: The supermassive black hole in question resides about 340 million light-years away at the center of a dwarf disk galaxy called RGG 118. The estimated mass of this object is about 50,000 solar masses. This is less than half the mass of…
They Saw A Huge Outburst At 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
This was somewhat unexpected and very cool: You’re witnessing the most dramatic outburst ever recorded at 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko by the Rosetta spacecraft. The brilliant plume of gas and dust erupted on July 29 just two weeks before perihelion. In a remarkable display of how quickly conditions on a comet can change, the outburst lasted only about 18 minutes, but its effects reverberated for…
Is The Universe Destiny, Chance Or Something Else?
This may be the most contemplated and controversial topic in science: How did things come to be? Here is an intro to the video: Are the universe and its physical laws so fine-tuned that the rise of life is inevitable? Or is life a fluke, a lucky roll of cosmic dice? We look for the…
They Found An Exoplanet That Orbits Two Stars
It is discoveries like this that will change how we view the universe. The discovery of exoplanets in the last 10 years or so has changed astronomy forever! And as cool as this is it isn’t the first time they spotted something like it. However these discoveries are becoming more frequent: Just like Tatooine of…
Could This New Method For “Finding Aliens” Work?
now THAT is clever… They sent radio signals into space and listened for them too. Now, astronomers have come up with a hyper targeted approach that is quite clever. Quality not quantity that’s what they say right? There have been many methods used to search for alien life and none like this. And…
25 Insane Things About Black Holes
To this date, no matter what anyone says or how decorated of an astrophysicist they are, no one actually 100% knows for sure everything about black holes. In this video, there is a list of some of the crazier facts: Much like a black body in thermodynamics, a black hole is a region of space…
They Found The Oldest Galaxy Yet…13.2 Billion Light Years Away
This has been quite a decade for astronomical discoveries. The pictures from telescopes such as ESO and Hubble have been incredible, and here is yet another one: Scientists say they have just found the furthest known galaxy, dubbed EDSY8p7. This galaxy is approximately 13.2 billion light years away which actually breaks the previous record. Scientists…
10 Strong Theories That Aliens Exist
Most people, not everyone though, feel the odds that we are alone in the universe are slim. With 100 billion visible galaxies in the known universe (and stress the word known), and most of those galaxies having billions of stars, the odds of some sort of intelligent life form other than ours existing seems strong.…
Why Is Ceres Missing Craters?
The Ceres mystery continues. Except this time it is not regarding bright spots or any pyramid like formations: Planetary scientists have a new mystery to investigate: Ceres, a dwarf planet that orbits the sun between Mars and Jupiter, appears to have significantly fewer craters on its surface than scientists had expected. Meteorites that crash into…
They Found A Huge Protogalaxy…10 Billion Light Years Away
Here is a really cool discovery of a “primitive” type of galaxy that is 10 billion light years away! Astronomer using the Palomar Cosmic Web Imager have discovered a giant protogalaxy 10 billion light-years away, and found that it is connected to a filament of the intergalactic medium. The protogalaxy is about 400,000 light-years across,…
These Are Pretty Much Planet Factories
To this day astronomers don’t completely know how planets are formed. They have a lot of ideas that may be on track but in the entire process, they can’t say for sure. This description in a quick generalization was taken: According to our current understanding, a star and its planets form out of a collapsing cloud…
Cool Meteor Shower On August 13th
Space fans and just people in general can appreciate a cool meteor shower. In less than one week, you will have the opportunity to witness one: Every year in mid-August, Earth plows headlong into the debris left behind by Comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle. Slamming into our atmosphere at 130,000 mph, the crumbles flash to light as the Perseid…
EmDrive Space Propulsion System Is The Real Deal
I have to say it is often encouraging when the underdog scientist or inventor is doubted and even mocked, and then proves the skeptics wrong. So is the case with the EmDrive propulsion system and here is some background and the latest in terms of developments: On July 27 Hacked reported that new experimental results…
Sedna May Be Getting “Stolen”
What in the world, or “space” could be taking this dwarf planet near the edge of our solar system on such a strange path? Turns out, our seemly placid star had a criminal youth of cosmic proportions. A recent study out from Leiden Observatory and Cornell University may shed light on the curious case of…
They Found Some Unusual Near Earth Objects
What are these unusual objects? They seem to be following a straight line and almost have a form that looks manipulated? A new study using data from NASA’s NEOWISE space telescope has traced some dark Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) back to their likely source – a family of large, low albedo asteroids known as the Euphrosynes.…
