What is dark matter? This Week in Astronomy with Dave Eicher
To all, Each week in 2023, Astronomy Editor Dave Eicher will bring you the latest and greatest in astronomy,…
Category: Astronomy
Gravitational wave detector LIGO is back online after three years of upgrades
Gravitational waves are microscopic ripples in spacetime that flow throughout the universe, and for the first time in three…
Meet the scientist (sort of) spending a year on Mars
For Canadian biologist Kelly Haston, spending a year training to survive on Mars wasn’t exactly a childhood dream. The 52-year-old…
This Weekend A Nearby Supernova Is Visible Even With A Small Telescope
Now could be a great time to have a look at a well-known galaxy in Ursa Major if you…
Astronomers observe the first radiation belt seen outside of our solar system
Artist’s impression of an aurora and the surrounding radiation belt of the ultracool dwarf LSR J1835+3259. Credit: Chuck Carter, Melodie…
Black holes might be defects in spacetime
Artist view of a binary black hole system. Credit: LIGO/Caltech/MIT/Sonoma State. Credit: Aurore Simonnet A group of theoretical physicists has…
China to land astronauts on the moon by 2030, lunar scientist says
A notional illustration of a Chinese moon base. According to a top Chinese lunar scientist, China will undoubtedly land on…
Tiny primordial black holes could have created their own Big Bang
It’s possible that tiny black holes made a major difference in the early universe. It is proposed in a new…
‘Hubble trouble’ could deepen with new measurement of the universe’s expansion
Perhaps resolving or exacerbating a longstanding dilemma in cosmology, the most precise measurement to date of faraway stars that…
Water on Earth predates the solar system, and even the sun
According to recent studies, some of the water molecules in your glass were formed more than 4.5 billion years ago.…