The rover just barely moved from its landing site, but it’s sending a steady stream of visual data that is freely available to anyone to play with. Mars rover 2020 Perseverance landed in Crater Lake on the Red Planet less … Read More
Four exoplanets have been discovered around the star TOI-1233 by two high school students, making them among the youngest people to ever discover a celestial body. Sixteen-year-old Kartik Pinglé and 18-year-old Jasmine Wright were participating in the Student Research Mentoring Program (SRMP) at the … Read More
A thunderstorm usually comes with lightning, a bright jagged strip that moves from the Earth’s cloud in the shortest route possible. But did you know that sometimes lightning fires straight up? Oh, and it’s blue. “Blue jets” – lightning-like electric … Read More
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
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
Astronomers hunting for radio signals from alien civilizations have detected an “intriguing signal” from the direction of Proxima Centauri, the nearest star system to the sun, The Guardian reported. The researchers are still preparing a paper on the discovery, and the data … Read More