Experiment Conducted Aboard the Space Station Could Hint at a Cure to Aging
Like every other living creature on the planet, our bodies are slaves to the endless march of time. There’s nothing we can to do stop it — at least not yet — and eventually we’ll fall apart just like everything that has come before us. But what if we didn’t? What if scientists could slow down, or even prevent the … Continue reading
A Black Hole Jet Wobbles Due To Space-Time Being Dragged Around It
An international team of researchers has discovered a curious feature of the jet of material produced by V404 Cygni, a stellar-mass black hole in the Milky Way. The jet wobbles in periods that can be as short as a few minutes. This happens because the black hole’s gravity is dragging space-time around the jet. As reported in Nature, such a … Continue reading
Earth is Struck by 17 Meteorites Everyday
Every year, the Earth is hit by about 6100 meteors large enough to reach the ground, or about 17 every day, research has revealed. The vast majority fall unnoticed, in uninhabited areas. But several times a year, a few land in places that catch more attention. Three months ago, for example, a small asteroid probably about the size of a … Continue reading
Should We Seed Other Worlds the With ‘Earth Brand’ Life?
The search for what we would deem to be “habitable” worlds orbiting other stars has reached a crossroads in recent years. As our technology and techniques improve, we’ve been able to identify small rocky worlds orbiting within other stars’ “habitable zones.” So far, we can measure an exoplanet’s mass, understand its physical size, even calculate its average density, revealing whether … Continue reading
Threat from an Earth-Altering Asteroid Strike is REAL, Warns NASA Chief
The NASA chief’s speech comes on the heels of the space agency’s announcement that it would conduct an asteroid impact simulation to identify critical aspects of disaster response in the event of such a cataclysmic scenario. NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine took the stage of this year’s Planetary Defence Conference on Monday to issue a stark warning: people should be ready … Continue reading
Probe Detects ‘Marsquake’ on Red Planet for Very First Time
The first ever seismic tremor was registered on Mars, proving that the so-far hypothetical “marsquakes” are a real deal, and the Red Planet is far from being dead – in a geological sense at least. The quake was detected by the French made SEIS module, that was placed on the planet back in December 2018 by NASA’s InSight lander probe. … Continue reading
Solar Storm Possible for Earth over Easter Weekend
A SOLAR storm is expected to close out the Easter weekend with a bombardment of solar particles set to hit our planet on Easter Monday. Researchers have noticed a small hole on the outer layer of the Sun’s atmosphere – known as a sunspot – which is turning towards Earth. Sunspots are patches of darkness on the Sun which are … Continue reading
An Interstellar Visitor Collided with Earth in 2014
Scientists have revealed that a meteor from another star system may have collided with the Earth 5 years ago. There was much excitement in the scientific community when in October 2017 astronomers spotted the first confirmed interstellar object – a space rock known as ‘Oumuamua. Now a new study by two researchers from Harvard University has put forward the intriguing … Continue reading
First Ever Image of an Actual Black Hole Captured By Event Horizon Telescope
For the first time ever astronomers capture an image of an actual black hole, not an artist interpretation or CGI. The particular black hole is supermassive measuring a staggering 40 billion km across and is located at the center of the distant Messier 87 galaxy which lies approximately 55 million light years away. The ‘ring of fire’ surrounding the black … Continue reading
Distant Destroyed Planet Offers Hint of Planet Earth’s Terrifying Future
Astronomers have revealed that a PLANETARY fragment destroyed by the death of its star offers an apocalyptic prophesy into Earth’s future. Earth has orbited the Sun at our solar system’s centre for 4.5 billion years. Our nearest star is responsible for life on Earth existing, due to the huge amount of energy it emits. Yet scientists have discovered the Sun … Continue reading
