They are among the largest and strangest structures on Earth – huge and mysterious patches of dense rock that lurk deep in the lower parts of our planet’s mantle. There are two …
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An asteroid the size of the Eiffel Tower will swiftly pass Earth on Friday (March 5) and will be out of our planetary neighborhood until 2029. The space rock, nicknamed Apophis (an …
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The search for life beyond Earth has led to the discovery of two new planetary systems. One of them houses three planets that are the size of Earth. But it does not …
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Projects such as SETI and Breakthrough Listen are dedicated to detecting the signals that aliens may be sending to the universe. But there is an additional side to the story, if E.T. …
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Pulsars are the rotating remains of mbadive stars that sweep the cosmos with narrow rays of radiation as they rotate. When an observer, in our case, the Earth, is in line with …
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The Gaia space observatory of the European Space Agency (ESA) spent 22 months conducting an exhaustive study of 1.7 billion stars in our sky, creating the most detailed star catalog to date. …
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