A water reserve the size of 140 trillion oceans lurks in a distant supermassive black hole, the Universe’s largest deposit of water ever found – 4,000 times the amount found in the Milky Way. Two teams of astronomers discovered this … Read More
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which was launched last December, has been progressively powering up its instruments and unfurling its sun shield, and is now aligning its mirrors in preparation for operation. Within a few months, the most powerful … Read More
If you had to pick Saturn out of a crowd, you’d most likely recognize it by its iconic rings. They are our solar system’s largest and brightest rings. Extending over 280,000 kilometers from the planet and wide enough to fit … Read More
With its incredible beauty, a time-lapse of Jupiter’s moons Europa and Io orbiting the gas giant has recently gone viral on the Internet. Because the time-lapse is so amazing, many users have claimed that it isn’t real. While it’s important … Read More
Ever feel like there’s just not enough time in the day? As it turns out, you may be onto something. The Earth is rotating faster than it has in the last half-century, causing our days to be slightly shorter than … Read More
Smacking an asteroid with a bomb or a smaller asteroid should shatter it into manageable pieces, right? Wrong. You’ve probably heard by now that the movie Armageddon got everything wrong — it’s simply not possible to blow up an asteroid … Read More