We’ve known for a long time that there is water in space. But an international team of scientists has found a cloud of water vapor 12 billion light-years away – and it’s bigger than you could possibly imagine. You Will…
Two highly promising spacecraft concepts are being funded by the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC). In terms of ISP and power levels, the new ion drives could have been five times better. The development of multi-megawatt ion engines and…
Using the combined might of two of Hawaii’s powerful telescopes, astronomers have captured what they are describing as “groundbreaking” sharp new images of a planetary system still in the process of being born. They also found no evidence of three…
Six billion Earth-like planets in the Milky Way? If true, that’s astounding. But the number needs some context. The Milky Way has up 400 billion stars. So even if there are six billion Earth-like planets, they’re still spread far and…
The unexpected discovery suggests that one in five galaxies in the ancient universe may be concealed behind dust. By pure chance, astronomers have discovered two galaxies at the edge of space and time that have remained hidden behind a thick…
“You’ll get to know the difference when you either die or you pass through.” A team of physicists from Sofia University in Bulgaria say that wormholes, which are hypothetical tunnels linking one part of the universe to another, might be…
Elegant experiments with entangled light have laid bare a profound mystery at the heart of reality One of the more unsettling discoveries in the past half a century is that the universe is not locally real. In this context, “real”…
At the heart of every black hole sits a problem. As they sizzle away into nothingness over the eons, they take with them a small piece of the Universe. Which, quite frankly, just isn’t in the rule book. It’s a…
University of Cambridge physicists have developed a theoretical foundation for the existence of wormholes, which are pipelines that connect two dissimilar places in space-time. Time travel and instant communication across great distances may become possible if a piece of data…
Astronomers have watched a giant star blow up in a fiery supernova for the first time ever — and the spectacle was even more explosive than the researchers anticipated. According to a new research published in the Astrophysical Journal, scientists…
