Seeing double could help resolve dispute about how fast the universe is expanding0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 24, 2019
Astronomers uses split images of quasars to produce a new estimate of the Hubble constant
Observations from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft provide evidence of rainfall on the north pole of Saturn’s moon Titan. The rainfall would be the first indication of the start of a summer season in the northern hemisphere of the hazy moon.
The era of renewed space exploration has led to some rather ambitious proposals.
The strange orbits of some objects in the farthest reaches of our solar system, hypothesized by some astronomers to be shaped by an unknown ninth planet, can instead be explained by the combined gravitational force of small objects orbiting the sun beyond Neptune, say researchers.
Did a real Bigfoot investigate a camera meant to track hunting game?
From disastrous scientific setbacks to the upending of scientific dogma and the end of a 40-year search for a protein
Geneticists have begun using old bones to make sweeping claims about the distant past. But their revisions to the human story are making some scholars of prehistory uneasy.
Was it a UFO? A viewer sent a video to WCBD of what appears to be a strange, round object in the sky above Kiawah during the night of Christmas Eve.
As levels of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide rise and warm the globe, Antarctica’s ice will become more vulnerable to cycles on an astronomical scale, particularly the tilt of our planet is as it spins around its axis.
Planet and moon have been hit by more asteroids in the past 290m years than at any time in previous billion