Hundreds of Minor Planets Found Beyond Neptune in OUR SOLAR SYSTEM, Planet Nine Next?
Researchers have successfully identified 316 minor planets beyond Neptune, 139 of which are completely new, in a discovery which could bring us one step closer to hunting down the mysterious Planet Nine. Using infrared and near-infrared data taken from the southern sky by the Dark Energy Survey (DES), scientists have painstakingly tracked down over 300 trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) at the … Continue reading
Traces of Theia Found in the Moon, Could Confirm Giant-Impact Hypothesis
Michelle Starr ScienceAlert Around 4.5 billion years ago, something the size of Mars collided with a newly formed Earth, to colossal effect. This object is not only thought to have fused with Earth and primed it for life, it also broke off a large chunk that went on to become the Moon. This story is known as the giant-impact hypothesis; … Continue reading
17 New Planets, Including Earth-Like One Discovered by Astronomy Student
University of British Columbia (UBC) astronomy doctoral student Michelle Kunimoto has discovered 17 new exoplanets outside the solar system by analyzing data from NASA’s Kepler mission, which was completed in 2018. Since its 2009 launch, astronomers using the Kepler orbital observatory have found scientific confirmation of the existence of exoplanets – including the possibly Earth-like Kepler-452b – in other regions … Continue reading
Scientists Perplexed by Massive Galaxy that Suddenly Went Dark
A “monster” galaxy that went mysteriously and suddenly dark has left scientist puzzled. via Independent: The web of stars, known as XMM-2599, existed about 12 billion years ago, in the early days of the universe, when it was only about 1.8 billion years old. It spewed out a vast number of stars in its short life. And then it suddenly … Continue reading
Nuking Possibly Hazardous Asteroids Would Be Like ‘Shotgun Blast’ Vaporising Earth
As the sightings and instances of meteors entering, and some exploding in our atmosphere seemingly increase, experts also seemed to have increased their efforts into finding ways to prevent an extinction event from a catastrophic celestial visitor impacting Earth. via Sputniknews In light of the hundreds of thousands of “potentially hazardous” so-called Near-Earth Objects (NOEs) passing our planet, efforts are … Continue reading
Warp Factor: We’ve Observed a Spinning Star that Drags the Very Fabric of Space and Time
One of the predictions of Einstein’s general theory of relativity is that any spinning body drags the very fabric of space-time in its vicinity around with it. This is known as “frame-dragging”. In everyday life, frame-dragging is both undetectable and inconsequential, as the effect is so ridiculously tiny. Detecting the frame-dragging caused by the entire Earth’s spin requires satellites such … Continue reading
Unknown Burst of Gravitational Waves Detected in Space, Is Betelgeuse Going Supernova?
Scientists think they have detected an “unknown or unanticipated” burst of gravitational waves coming from somewhere deep in space. The wobble in spacetime was picked up unexpectedly by the LIGO experiment, which was specifically built to detect gravitational waves. Astronomers have a picture of what part of the sky the burst originated from, and will look to find more information … Continue reading
Astronomers Trace Mysterious Repeating Fast Radio Burst to Nearby Galaxy Similar to Ours
For more than a decade, astronomers across the globe have wrestled with the perplexities of fast radio bursts—intense, unexplained cosmic flashes of energy, light years away, that pop for mere milliseconds. Despite the hundreds of records of these enigmatic sources, researchers have only pinpointed the precise location of four such bursts. Now there’s a fifth, detected by a team of … Continue reading
There May be far More Black Holes Wandering Space, Consuming All in Their Path
Scientists studying the underlying mechanisms which formed the universe have made a startling and terrifying discovery, which they believe indicates that there are more black holes out there than we thought – and they’re moving. The team from Montana State University targeted dwarf galaxies, which are 100 times less massive than our own Milky Way, for study as these are … Continue reading
Betelgeuse Showing Signs of Going Supernova
“Such an event, when it does happen, could make Betelgeuse appear so bright in the sky that it would be like a second sun“ One of the brightest stars in the night sky is exhibiting signs that its explosive demise might not be far away. The red supergiant, which can be found in the constellation Orion, has been going through … Continue reading
