Enceladus has strange, parallel “tiger stipes” at its south pole. New research solves some of the mysteries of the “tiger stripes” on Saturn’s moon Enceladus. The moon has been of particular interest to scientists ever since it was observed in…
An illustration shows a small neutrons star surround by a disk of loose material. A twisted little neutron star devoured chunks of its stellar twin, revealing a never-before-seen phenomenon to scientists watching on Earth. Unlike most objects in space (including…
A NASA illustration shows what a system containing a black hole and a star might look like. Two weeks ago (Nov. 27), astronomers published a paper in the journal Nature claiming they’d found an impossibly gigantic black hole not too…
Our home galaxy has a new, super-precise mass measurement: about 890 billion times the mass of our sun. That’s 3.9 tredecillion lbs. (1.8 tredecillion kilograms), a tredecillion being a 1 with 42 zeros after it, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. That amounts to…
Here, an image of the launch-triggered lightning that struck the Apollo 12 rocket. SAN FRANCISCO — When NASA’s Apollo 12 rocket launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Nov. 14, 1969, the sight was electrifying — and not in…
In 2015, astronaut Andreas Mogensen snapped this photo of a thunderstorm from the International Space Station. Dark fluffy thunderclouds don’t just fuel dramatic storms, they also produce some of the most energetic flashes of light on the planet — and…
A photo shows the experimental device in which the never-before-seen effect took place. When you touch a hot surface, you’re feeling movement. If you press your hand against a mug of tea, warmth spreads through your fingers. That’s the sensation…
A solar wind proton approaches Mars at high speed; it steals an electron from an escaped Martian hydrogen atom and passes through a magnetic field surrounding Mars. The now-neutral atom then enters the planet’s atmosphere and collides with gas molecules,…
Two black holes merge, generating gravitational waves. Do supermassive black holes have friends? The nature of galaxy formation suggests that the answer is yes, and in fact, pairs of supermassive black holes should be common in the universe. I am…
Sheen, 50, grew up in Port Talbot in South Wales before finding fame in movies such as The Damned United, The Queen and Frost/Nixon Anna Lundberg and Michael Sheen attend the the GQ Men Of The Year Awards 2019 (Image:…
Andrew Maxwell had been filming for the BBC Three show Conspiracy Road Trip in the secretive Area 51 when military guards confiscated their cameras and knocked them to the ground at gunpoint back in 2012 I’m A Celebrity star Andrew…
Newcastle manager Steve Bruce’s maiden return to former club Aston Villa ended in a wretched 2-0 Premier League defeat. Goals from Conor Hourihane and Anwar El Ghazi in the space of four first-half minutes eased Villa’s recent woes after a…