Tagged: space exploration

Poor earthlings. You refuse to believe Earth is but a spark of life in a yawning, dead universe. You cling to the notion that aliens, somewhere, are dreaming of us, too. Will they hear our transmissions? Will they finally call us back? You need contact,...

A plutonium-238 oxide pellet glows from its own heat; the radioisotope is used as fuel to power spacecraft bound for deep space. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY A recent report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) warns that NASA’s ability to mount future missions in deep...

The most distant and oldest black hole ever observed is reported by a team of astronomers from MIT’s Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research and the Carnegie Institution for Science. The monstrous object is 800 million times more massive than the sun and was...

Astronomers report the number of dark object in our Milky Way is much larger than previously thought. A new study reveals there are as many 100 million black holes in our galaxy. Some of these monster black holes have a mass about 10 billion times...

Astronomers report the number of dark object in our Milky Way is much larger than previously thought. A new study reveals there are as many 100 million black holes in our galaxy. Some of these monster black holes have a mass about 10 billion times...