Retired NASA agent Joseph Gutheinz dismisses UFO claims, noting interstellar travel would take 70,000 years and suggesting ...

Alpha Centauri, the closest stellar system to our own, has long intrigued astronomers and stargazers. Located just 4.37 light-years away, Alpha Centauri is a binary star system made up of two main ...

It was a simple question asked over lunch in 1950. Enrico Fermi, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who helped usher in the ...

June 3, 2025 — Astronomers have revealed new research showing that millions of new solar system objects are likely to be detected by a brand-new facility, which is expected to come online later this ...

The curious minds at What If speculate on whether Proxima b could be humanity’s first contact with alien life. Iran uses Trump's own words against him Poison hemlock has spread throughout the US.

Astronomers have discovered that the Jupiter, the largest planet in our Solar System, was once so big that it could have held 2,000 Earths. Jupiter is our system's oldest planet, forming from the ...

It’s possible that this object was first ejected to the Oort cloud, the most distant region in our solar system, which is home to many comets, and then sent back,” Cheng adds. The size of 2017 ...

If you were to look at a giant picture of space, zoom in on the Milky Way galaxy, and then zoom in again on one of its outer spiral arms, you’d find the solar system. Astronomers believe it ...

A new observatory is set to detect millions of never-before-seen solar system objects, a global group of astronomers led by Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) has said. The brand new facility at ...

with the original offering a lightweight tonearm and B&O's 'Optimum Pivot Point' system for reducing vibrations from interfering with musical playback. It also employed tangential tracking, wherein ...

Bad news, earthlings. Computer simulations of the solar system’s future reveal a new risk facing us all: The gravitational tug of a passing star could either cause another planet to smack into ...