Mysterious signals from deep space called fast radio bursts could be evidence of advanced alien technology, according to a new study. The study suspects these FRB might be leakage from extremely technologically advanced aliens using planet-sized transmitters to power interstellar probes in distant galaxies.
After studying Saturn for more than 13 years, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has finally given us a close-up view of its small moon Pan. And it shows how strange the Saturn moon is.
Since their discovery in 2007, fewer than two dozen have been detected by the world's largest radio telescopes - and their origin remains unknown. Astronomers know almost nothing about them other than that they appear to occur in very remote galaxies billions of light years away.
Some pulsars and neutron stars could be formed of an exotic material unlike that found in normal stars. A new study suggests a way to find these strange quark objects.
Many of you who are experienced amateur astronomers know intimately Burnham's Celestial Handbook , the observing guide originally written in the 1960s by the curious astronomer Robert Burnham, Jr. The Handbook is still a mainstay of the libraries of many observers, a hodgepodge of observing data, tales and stories, photographs, poetry, and ephemera that introduced a whole generation to many deep-sky objects. It is still in heavy use by some although much of the data was outdated even when the book was published in the 60s, let alone for the Dover Publications update in the 1970s.
... us of a simple fact about life on Earth: You can't take any of it for granted. Here is the thing: It is kind of weird that we live on a planet that has almost equal amounts of open ocean and dry land. Every planet will have some degree of bumps on ...
... University in Australia, created the images alongside graphic artist Steve Grice. In a stunning glimpse at the weird and wonderful shapes, sizes and colours of the creatures, their illustrations and interactive research, published on Sketchfab , ...
The colors and contours indicate surface brightness, and the red arrows show its estimated size. The discovery of a new and rarely seen nebula 10 billion light-years away has created a cosmic mystery: What is lighting up this dusty cloud of gases? Researchers led by Zheng Cai, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have discovered an "enormous Lyman-alpha nebula," or ELAN, only the third of these vast cosmic structures ever seen.
But a self-styled astronomer has accused the space agency of covering up the truth that WF9 will hit us directly. Dr Dyomin Damir Zakharovich has warned the impact could wipe out a city if it strikes land or cause a devastating tsunami if it lands in the sea.
Every so often, we hear about a strange radio signal winging its way Earthward from the cold, lifeless depths of outer space. Suddenly, bored news personnel around the world come alive and begin churning out sensational stories with lurid headlines promising that this is really it - our first contact with alien minds.
... floating past the star, obscuring the starlight at unpredictable intervals. The star's light curve was so inexplicably weird that the hypothesis seemed worth a check. But when astronomers searched for the optical or radio signatures of an advanced ...
A stunning new image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the closest view yet of Saturn's 'wavemaker' mini-moon Daphnis as it creates ripples along inside one of the planet's rings. The 5-mile-wide moon orbits within a 26 mile wide gap known as the Keeler Gap, and its gravity causes the edges to 'wave' in both the horizontal and vertical directions.
Venus is known both as the " planet of love " and the Earth's "evil twin". And although research suggests its environment is more hellish than romantic , there's actually a lot we don't know about our celestial neighbour.
Researchers spotted a massive bow-shaped structure in the cloud tops over Venus, and it could offer new insights into what lies below. Venus is blanketed in a thick layer of clouds that stretch 40 miles above the planet's surface.
A strange burst of radio waves that has puzzled researchers for years has finally been traced to its source, answering one question but generating many, many more. The discovery was made my scientists at Cornell University along with astronomers from around the world.
A strange burst of radio waves that has puzzled researchers for years has finally been traced to its source, answering one question but generating many, many more. The discovery was made my scientists at Cornell University along with astronomers from around the world.