Who owns the universe?
With many countries, companies and individuals intensifying their space exploration programs, questions about rights, ownership and the feasibility of manned space missions are coming to the fore of public debate......»»
This exoplanet might literally be the most metal planet out there
It's likely that something stripped the outer layers off a once-rocky exoplanet. Enlarge / Computer-generated conception of the hot, metal planet. (credit: NASA) Metals are everywhere in the Universe, from hot gas giants.....»»
MyQ smart garage opener with 68,000 5-star reviews is cheaper now than on Prime Day
The MyQ smart garage door opener by Chamberlain is a smart home device that is often overlooked. And yet anyone who owns one will tell … The post MyQ smart garage opener with 68,000 5-star reviews is cheaper now than on Prime Day appeared first.....»»
Google Pixel Update Schedule: How Long Will My Phone Get Updates?
One of the reasons anyone owns a Google Pixel phone is because it receives what is arguably the best level of software support in Android. Samsung has certainly made its case as being the king of updates, but Google is still the quickest most months.....»»
Saving Mt. Wilson Observatory: Inside the long battle to maintain the spot where we found our place in the universe
Los Angeles was once the best place in the world to see the universe......»»
Hubble finds bizarre explosion in unexpected place
A very rare, strange burst of extraordinarily bright light in the universe just got even stranger—thanks to the eagle-eye of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The phenomenon, called a Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transient (LFBOT), flashed onto th.....»»
Gravitational distortion of time helps tell modified gravity apart from a dark force
With his theory of General Relativity in 1915, Albert Einstein revolutionized how we think about our universe. Rather than the cosmos simply providing the room for the planets and stars to orbit each other, space and time themselves were now dynamica.....»»
Apple interested in College Football Playoff streaming rights for 2026 championship
ESPN owns the rights to stream College Football Playoff games through 2026, though Apple and Amazon are eyeing the opportunity to take over.Apple TV+ and footballApple already has rights to Friday Night Baseball and Major League Soccer, but it hasn't.....»»
Exploring stellar hydrogen burning via muons and nuclei
The muon is a subatomic particle that resembles an electron but is 200 times heavier. It interacts with nuclei through the weak force, one of the four fundamental forces in the universe. When a muon binds with a deuteron (composed of one proton and o.....»»
Bursts of star formation explain mysterious brightness at cosmic dawn
When scientists viewed the James Webb Space Telescope's (JWST) first images of the universe's earliest galaxies, they were shocked. The young galaxies appeared too bright, too massive and too mature to have formed so soon after the Big Bang. It would.....»»
What"s the link between gamma ray bursts and supernovae? It might be binary stars
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are some of the most violent events in the universe. Some have a power output equivalent to all of the other stars in the observable universe, at least in the spectrum of gamma rays. But we know very little about them. A new p.....»»
Growing in molasses: Cosmic large-scale structure caught growing slower than expected
The large-scale structure of the universe—the gigantic, hierarchical cosmic web of structures bound by gravity—is mostly made up of dark matter. The growth of the large-scale structure, from individual galaxies to galaxy clusters, cosmic voids an.....»»
Antimatter: We cracked how gravity affects it. What it means for our understanding of the universe
A substance called antimatter is at the heart of one of the greatest mysteries of the universe. We know that every particle has an antimatter companion that is virtually identical to itself, but with the opposite charge. When a particle and its antip.....»»
The 10 darkest moments in the DCEU, ranked
From Superman killing Zod to Darkseid conquering Earth, these are 10 of the darkest moments ever seen in the DC Extended Universe......»»
Listening to the radio on the far side of the moon
There are unexplored regions of the universe—and there are also unexplored times. In fact, there's a nearly 400-million-year gap in our universe's history that we've never seen: a time before stars known as the Dark Ages. To investigate that era, r.....»»
10 most powerful Justice League members, ranked from weakest to strongest
The Justice League has recruited many powerful superheroes to combat evil, and many of its members are considered the strongest beings in the DC Universe......»»
We can"t see the first stars yet, but we can see their direct descendants
If you take a universe worth of hydrogen and helium, and let it stew for about 13 billion years, you get us. We are the descendants of the primeval elements. We are the cast-off dust of the first stars, and many generations of stars after that. So ou.....»»
Study reveals cosmic surprises about star formation from the dawn of time
A groundbreaking international study has unveiled remarkable insights into the early evolution of galaxies, shedding light on the fundamental processes that have shaped our universe. The findings were published in Nature Astronomy......»»
Astronomers discover newborn galaxies with the James Webb Space Telescope
With the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers are now able to peer so far back in time that we are approaching the epoch where we think that the first galaxies were created. Throughout most of the history of the universe, galaxies se.....»»
Astronomers find abundance of Milky Way–like galaxies in early universe, rewriting cosmic evolution theories
Galaxies from the early universe are more like our own Milky Way than previously thought, flipping the entire narrative of how scientists think about structure formation in the universe, according to new research published today......»»
When did the first exocontinents appear in the universe?
On Earth, continents are likely necessary to support life. Continents "float" on top of the Earth's viscous mantle, and heat from the planet's core keeps the mantle from solidifying and locking the continents into place......»»