We know it couldn’t have began from a singularity. So how small could it have been at the absolute minimum?
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Since the 1940s, NASA has been testing experimental aircraft (aka X-planes) at California’s Armstrong Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base. In the past two decades, however, the agency […]
Just 13.8 billion years after the hot Big Bang, we can see 46.1 billion light-years away in all directions. Doesn’t that violate…something?
When three wise men gifted baby Jesus with gold, frankincense, and myrrh, they had no idea one was made from colliding neutron stars.
Astronomers spot periodic lights coming from near the black hole at the center of our galaxy.
For too long, we’ve treated racism as a personality trait or a vague systemic menace rather than the result of policies and ideas created deliberately to benefit some groups at the expense of others. As a result, too many anti-racist efforts have collapsed into name-calling sessions, failing to achieve their goals. Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to be an Antiracist, sees a better way.
“You dream about these kinds of moments when you’re a kid,” said lead paleontologist David Schmidt.
Is the time crystal really an otherworldly revolution, leveraging quantum computing that will change physics forever?
The newest record-setting quasar houses an enormous black hole. No one knows how. In every scientific field, we’re always on the lookout for whatever new discovery might reveal what’s currently beyond […]
A few years ago, the first dark matter-free galaxies were announced, and then immediately disputed. Now, there are too many to ignore.
Remember Stephen Hawking’s robotic voice? It wasn’t a robot.
“The Expanse” is the best vision I’ve ever seen of a space-faring future that may be just a few generations away.
In a joint briefing at the 101st American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, NASA and NOAA revealed 2020’s scorching climate data.
The water tower-shaped craft is an early prototype of Starship, which SpaceX hopes will someday send humans to Mars.
Every power source involves trade-offs. Given the challenges of increasing demand and climate change, what is the future of energy?
Everything else in the universe is either a particle or field. Dark energy behaves as neither, and it may be a property inherent to space itself.
More energy means more potential for discovery, but we’re topped out. If your goal is to discover something completely novel, you have to look in a way that no one else […]
You actually score worse on memory tests.
This space expansionist ideology marked the beginning of what Arendt called “earth alienation.”
A black hole’s event horizon is thought of as the point of no return. But perhaps there are ways back out, after all. Black holes just might be the most extreme […]
According to researchers at Washington State University, the answer is yes.
Various studies examine the impact of humidity, temperature, rain, and sunshine on COVID-19.
Utilizing nuclear waste converted to diamonds, this company’s batteries will reportedly last thousands of years in some cases.
A year ago, a puzzling gap existed between black holes and neutron stars. With nearly a year of new data, LIGO solves the puzzle. On Monday, March 16, 2020, astrophysicist Carl […]
From exoplanets to supermassive black holes to the first stars and galaxies, Webb will show us the Universe as we’ve never seen it before.
No matter how your year went, Hubble’s views of the Universe never disappoint. Year after year, Hubble’s telescopic views are unparalleled. Saturn, its rings, and 5 of its moons are […]
You’re gonna die, cloud! All stars, even our Sun, will someday eventually die. After burning on the main sequence for billions of years, the Sun will expand into a red giant, […]
The discovery pushes back humanity’s history with domestication.
The study identified superhabitable planets outside of our solar system.
The laws of physics aren’t changing. The Earth is. When it comes to any physical science, we know that the fundamental rules governing how the Universe works remain constant with time. […]