Station on April 9, 2020. A Russian official who attended the launch has recently tested positive for the novel coronavirus.” class=” block-image-ads hero-image” onerror=”if(this.src && this.src.indexOf(‘missing-image.svg’) !== -1){return true;};this.parentNode.replaceChild(window.missingImage(),this)” srcset=” 320w, 480w, 650w, 970w, 1024w” sizes=”(min-width:…
An artist’s depiction of a magnetar. Magnetars — highly magnetized, rapidly rotating super-dense stars — are among the most enigmatic creatures to inhabit the cosmos and their origins are shrouded in mystery. Do they come from supernova explosions of dying…
Light escaping from a black hole may “boomerang” its way to freedom, new X-ray images reveal. Researchers found this odd behavior while reviewing archival X-ray observations of a black hole that’s approximately 10 times as massive as our sun. Located…
Two young nebulas burst to life in the galaxy next-door. Young stars blaze to life in a nearby galaxy, repainting their cosmic neighborhood with fiery blooms of gas and radiation. This new Hubble Space Telescope image captures just another day…
A photograph showing SpaceX’s first batch of Starlink satellites during launch on May 23, 2019. SpaceX’s Starlink internet satellites will soon sport an accessory to tamp down their surprising brightness. That brightness worries many astronomers, who say that the huge…
A map of the sky shows the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), a remnant of the period of the early universe when this lost dark matter might have existed. One of the deepest mysteries in physics, known as the Hubble tension,…
When the bizarre world of quantum physics — where a “cat” can be both alive and dead, and particles a galaxy apart are connected — is merged with computer technology, the result is unprecedented power to anyone who masters this…
Lego has released three new “Star Wars” ahead of “Star Wars Day” on May 4, 2020. Lego Star Wars Day Offer Lego is offering a free Death Star II Battle set for Star Wars purchases above $75 for May the…
A long-exposure image shows stars appearing to whirl around Polaris, the north star, which appears fixed in the sky. Something’s up with the North Star. People have watched the North Star for centuries. The bright star, also known as Polaris,…
The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search is one of the most sensitive efforts to track down brand-new, never-before-seen dark matter particles. But what if dark matter particles aren’t something new after all? Could we have already discovered dark matter? That’s the…
Physicist Freeman J. Dyson at The Church Center for the United Nations in New York on March 22, 2000. Legendary physicist and big thinker Freeman Dyson has died at age 96 in New Jersey, according to reports from Maine Public…
Artist’s depiction of Schrödinger’s cat. The thought experiment known as Schrödinger’s cat is one of the most famous, and misunderstood, concepts in quantum mechanics. By thinking deeply about it, researchers have come to spectacular insights about physical reality. Who came…