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A Newly Found Comet Might Become 2021’s Brightest Comet
Exciting news! A newly found comet might become 2021’s brightest comet. Astronomer Greg Leonard discovered the comet that now bears his name – C/2021 A1 (Leonard) – on January 3, 2021 at the Mount Lemmon Observatory in Arizona. Astronomers report that discovery images … Read More
Scientists May Have Detected a Signal That Could Change Astronomy Forever
In 2015, scientists snagged the first detection of a gravitational wave, a ripple in the fabric of spacetime. The achievement marked the beginning of an entirely new field of astronomy and earned the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics. Now, emerging research suggests … Read More
We Finally Know How Long a Day on Saturn Is
For years, the length of Saturn’s day has remained an unsolved puzzle for frustrated astronomers. But now a student at the University of California, Santa Cruz, believes he has finally solved the mystery. Christopher Mankovich used the rings of the … Read More
The Earth is Accelerating Its Rotation Speed, 2021 Will Be The Shortest Year (Video)
If you think that 2020 has dragged on for too long, you will probably be surprised to learn that our planet has actually spun unusually fast. Last year, July 19 was the day on which the Earth made the shortest … Read More
Harvard Professor Says Alien Technology Visited our Solar System in 2017 (Video)
A Harvard professor believes that we were visited by an alien object in 2017. In his upcoming book, Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth, theoretical physicist Avi Loeb lays out his theory about a peculiar-shaped object that entered … Read More
A signal Was Sent to Make Contact with Aliens on a Distant “Super Earth” – Here’s What We Said (Video)
Scientists and artists have banded together to beam coded radio transmissions toward a star that has a potentially habitable planet, just 12.4 light-years from Earth. “Sónar Calling GJ273b” is the latest effort to communicate with aliens, 43 years since the first … Read More
ESA Mars Express orbiter takes photo of Christmas ‘Angel’ on Mars (Photo)
Scientists from the European Space Agency (ESA) have taken an amazing image from the surface of Mars, which proves that Christmas is probably not a holiday that we celebrate only on Earth, writes the Daily Mail. Mars Express orbiter took … Read More