Johann Strauss II's popular orchestral piece "By the Beautiful Blue Danube" has been inextricably linked to space since it was used in the 1968 classic film 2001: A Space Odyssey. The waltz played as ...
Discovered on July 1 by the NASA-funded ATLAS telescope in Chile, 3I/ATLAS is only the third confirmed visitor from another ...
A supernova is a cataclysmic stellar death that leaves behind a black hole or neutron star. It is the biggest, brightest, and most violent type of explosion scientists have observed in the universe.
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. Create a star that's massive enough, and it won't go out with a whimper ...
Theres a famous star that I'm sure you've seen in the sky. Its name is Betelgeuse, and you can find it in the Orion constellation, where it marks Orion's right shoulder. If you want to call it ...
Since the accident Russia’s main space corporation, Roscosmos, has been assessing plans to repair the Site 31 launch site and ...
NASA associate administrator Amit Kshatriya and associate administrator of NASA Science Dr. Nicky Fox explain that "all ...
NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has gone farther than any other spacecraft in history. Launched in 1977, it is a historic ...
Space travel could increase the risk of erectile dysfunction in male astronauts, a new study has found. The study, published in The FASEB Journal, notes that this is due to astronauts being exposed to ...
A global team detected the first clear signs of spacetime twisting around a rapidly spinning black hole, offering rare ...
A RUSSIAN submarine was shadowed through UK waters by the Royal Navy in the midst of a storm. Dramatic pictures showed ...
Black holes are notoriously difficult to spot unless they are active, and one type of activity is the destruction of a star, ...
But the supermassive black hole lurking at the core of NGC 3783 is 30 million times the mass of our humble sun, and the ...
Most smaller galaxies may not have supermassive black holes in their centers, according to a recent study using NASA's ...
The European Space Agency said that the black hole inside the spiral galaxy NGC 3783 has the mass of 30 million suns.
Space exploration has always relied on the continuous improvement of spacecraft propulsion systems. As humanity dreams of ...
The light of the oldest supernova ever seen, dating back 13 billion years to just 730 million years after the Big Bang, has ...
MAVEN has circled Mars for more than a decade, exploring the planet and relaying data from robots on the surface.
One of NASA’s workhorse spacecraft in orbit around Mars has fallen silent, leaving agency personnel scrambling to ...
Maven, an acronym for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, abruptly stopped communicating with ground stations on Dec. 6.