The general theory of relativity was published by the physics genius more than a century ago, to refine Isaac Newton’s law of universal gravitation. Providing a unified description of gravity as a geometric property of space and time, or spacetime…
A minuscule black hole that is quite close to Earth has been found by astronomers. Its mass is around three times that of the Sun, and it is known as "The Unicorn." The newly detected black hole could belong to a new class as the small…
Man has been curious in what occurs after death since the dawn of time. Of course, there are many conventional responses to this query, but researchers may have just added an endless number of additional hypotheses, just to mix things up. Death …
According to a number of reports, NASA is keeping a watch on a large golden asteroid that has the potential to make us all billionaires—at least, if those who find it decide to share the money. This "golden egg," also known as Psyche 1…
One of Stephen Hawking’s most famous hypotheses on dark matter — that this mysterious and invisible element is made up of primordial black holes — was recently destroyed. A massive telescope took an image of a whole galaxy in one shot, leading to …
The Milky Way is blowing a star-forming bubble, and we’re in the middle of it. Star formation in the 500 light-years around Earth is being driven by a cosmic bubble known as the Local bubble, as seen in this artist's concept. Think “bubbles,”…
Famous physicist Prof. Brian Cox has recently made an entry in one of astronomy's most inquisitive and vital questions: Given the high possibility of intelligent alien life randomly prevailing in the ceaselessly massive universe, why, still, haven…
If we send a crewed spaceship to Mars right now and it lands in a large canyon and starts exploring, they'll find a massive deposit of water. The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) mission discovered "large volumes of water" in the red plan…
The driest region on Earth is Antarctica's Dry Valleys, which haven't seen rain in almost 2 million years. This region receives no precipitation and covers an area of 4800 square kilometers with no water, ice, or snow. Lake Vida, Lake Vanda, L…
After a week of anticipation, NASA has finally released a historic Hubble Space Telescope image – and it is really stunning. To summarise, the photograph seems to show the farthest distant star ever discovered by humans. According to the scientists b…
Although the Moon does have an atmosphere, it is very thin and mostly made of hydrogen, neon, and argon. This is not a gaseous combination capable of supporting oxygen-dependent animals such as humans. On the Moon, there is an abundance of oxygen. It …
As an astrophysicist, I am always struck by the fact that even the wildest science-fiction stories tend to be distinctly human in character. No matter how exotic the locale or how unusual the scientific concepts, most science fiction ends up being a…
The plan calls for putting a nuclear reactor on Phobos, the moon of Mars. Strangely, as part of the Artemis mission, NASA recently disclosed identical intentions to install a reactor on our Moon. Mars had a magnetosphere billions of years ago, wh…
