A team of physicists announced Thursday that they have detected the sound of two black holes colliding a billion light years away, fulfilling the last part of Einstein’s theory of relativity in its one...
10 years after the demotion of Pluto to dwarf planet status, evidence of a “Planet X” beyond Neptune may return the solar system to its former size.
Evidence of the planet was discovered by Konstantin...
The novel, and now movie, “The Martian” has captured many people's imaginations about possible future trips to Mars. The movie depicts many advanced technologies needed to survive on the planet, and...
Welcome to Out of this World, a new blog about recent developments in astronomy. The past few weeks have been an exciting time for space, with new discoveries and cool events.
The most important recent...
