‘Winking’ Star RZ Piscium May Be Destroying And Consuming Its Planets
RZ Piscium is located about 550 light-years away in the constellation Pisces, and exhibits erratic episodes of dimming, when its brightness reduces by as much as 90 percent.
Small Seafloor Predator With ‘Jackknife’ Head Lived 508 Million Years Ago
Habelia optata lived about 508 million years ago in the middle Cambrian Period, and despite its small size, was among the top predators on the seafloor.
Neutron Star Merger Produced Debris Cocoon That Absorbed Resultant Black Hole Jet
It also produces gravitational waves, which is how we observed the first such event, and of course, the resulting mass is quite likely an extremely dense black hole.
SpaceX Produces 400th Merlin 1D Engine Ahead Of Falcon Heavy Maiden Launch
The company, owned by billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, shared pictures and video of the 400th Merlin 1D engine, the same one that powers both the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets.
Top Phone Scams Of 2017: Fake Neighbors, Utilities, Equifax Data, Flood Insurance
Phone spam protection service Hiya released its 2017 Robocall Radar Report on Tuesday, showing total unwanted calls to U.S. customers grew by 76 percent from 2016.
Multimillion Dollar Cryptocurrency Scam By Mining Max Busted In South Korea
Authorities in South Korea have indicted over two dozen people associated with Las Vegas-headquartered Bitcoin mining company Mining Max.
Before Crewed Mars Mission, NASA Wants To Study How Space Affects Humans
The space agency wants to understand how a long-term stay in space affects the human body before it decides to send a crewed mission to Mars.
NASA Planning A Proxima Centauri Expedition In 2069 To Find Alien Life?
The space agency is reportedly working on creating a spacecraft by 2069 that will travel at a tenth of the speed of light, which would take about 40 years to reach Proxima Centauri.
Bitcoin Price Crashes After Coinbase Starts Bitcoin Cash Trading
The move led to a big fall in the price of Bitcoin and a surge for rival Bitcoin Cash, leading to speculation about insider trading on the cryptocurrency trading platform.
NASA Finds Jupiter’s Equatorial Jet Streams Reversed By Gravity Waves
Much like Earth, Jupiter also has an equatorial jet stream that reverses course at fixed periods. A NASA-led team has found the likely cause behind the reversal phenomenon.
Theories Of Dark Energy, Gravity Pruned By First Neutron Star Merger Observation
The only observation ever of two neutron stars merging was made Aug. 17, using both the detection of gravitational waves as well as that of the intense burst of accompanying light.
Microorganism Fossils From 3.5 Billion Years Ago Suggest Life Commonplace In Universe
Microorganisms that relied on methane and sulfur evolved very early in Earth’s history, when the planet was extremely different from how it appears to us today.
Comet-Like Exoplanet Evaporates, Orbits Its Star’s Poles And Could Have Mysterious Companion
GJ436b is an exoplanet categorized as a warm Neptune. It has a comet-like tail and evaporates like one too, and has a highly elliptical orbit that goes over the poles of its parent star.
Is North Korea Hacking Bitcoin To Evade Sanctions?
The country has long been subject to international sanctions, and is suspected of hacking bitcoin to gain access to precious foreign exchange through the cryptocurrency.
International Space Station Gets SpaceX Dragon Cargo, New Crew Members On Way
A few hours after three astronauts took off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan early Sunday, SpaceX’s cargo-carrying Dragon spacecraft attached itself to the International Space Station.
Deriving Fuel From Air: Converting Methane To Methanol May Become Simpler
Scientists at the Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, have demonstrated a relatively cheaper and easier method to convert methane into methanol.
Narwhal Physiology Combines Freeze And Flight Reactions When Stressed
The marine mammals, also called unicorns of the sea, display both flights and freeze reactions at the same time, when feeling unnaturally threatened.
Elon Musk Shares Used Falcon 9, Dragon Photos For Upcoming NASA Delivery
Elon Musk shared photographs from the last time both the Falcon 9 rocket and the Dragon spacecraft flew on a mission.
Mars’ Ancient Clay Deposits Could Have Formed With Martian Crust, Without Water
The distribution of clay on the surface of Mars is widespread but patchy. Typically, clay formation requires three ingredients: rock, heat and water.
Dark Matter Halo Around Massive Primordial Galaxies Pushes Standard Cosmological Model Limits
A pair of gargantuan primordial galaxies — with about 313 billion solar masses — from when the universe was less than one billion years old, were found in a halo of dark matter.
Oldest-Known Supermassive Black Hole, Quasar May Have Dozens Of Undiscovered Companions
Researchers spotted a black hole with 800 million solar masses inside a quasar that dates back to a mere 690 million years after the Big Bang brought the universe into existence.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Is An Extremely Tough Machine
To withstand the harsh conditions of space, which are very different from Earth, the space telescope is being put through a large number of tests for its hardiness.
Is Santa Claus Real? At Least His Inspiration, St Nicholas, Likely Was
Researchers dated a bone that is considered to be a relic of the legendary saint, and found it to originate from the same period as his death, as mentioned in historical accounts.
Potentially Habitable Exoplanet K2-18b Found To Have Super-Earth Neighbor
The accidental discovery was made while scientists were trying to determine if K2-18b is a larger version of Earth or a scaled-down version of Neptune.
Boeing Loses Super Hornet Deal With Canada To Second-Hand Australian Fighter Jets
The development has its roots in a trade dispute between Boeing and Canadian plane maker Bombardier, and it cost the U.S. company up to $6.4 billion in revenue.
WATCH: Woman Wearing VR Headset 'Grabs Wrong End Of Dog'
The woman was wearing a virtual reality headset while reaching for her dog in the video which went viral.
Eating Healthy Is Good For Earth’s Environment, Not Just For You
A new study looked at the nationally recommended diets for 37 countries, accounting for almost two-thirds of Earth’s population, and found healthy eating is better for the environment.
Metals May Have Trickled Down Through Rock To Make Terrestrial Planets' Cores
A new theory proposes the solid cores of terrestrial planets in the solar system were formed as molten metal percolated to the inner depths, through gaps between grains of rock.
Trump’s Downsizing Utah’s Bears Ears, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments Taken To Court
President Donald Trump issued a proclamation Monday to reduce the size of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and to allow mining in the newly public lands.
Underwater Volcano Eruptions Very Common But Poorly Studied Threat To Marine Travel
Most volcano eruptions on Earth happen under the ocean’s surface, and can pose a threat not just to ships but, depending on intensity, also to aircraft.