August 8, 2019 Mysterious, ancient radio signals keep pelting Earth Sudden shrieks of radio waves from deep space keep slamming into radio telescopes on Earth, spattering those instruments' detectors with confusing data. And now, astronomers are using artificial intelligence to pinpoint the source of the shrieks, in the hope of explaining what's sending them to Earth from — researchers suspect — billions of light-years across space.
August 8, 2019 NASA spots perfectly sideways galaxy that looks like a lightsaber NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has spotted a perfectly sideways galaxy 44 million light-years from Earth, known as NGC 5866.
August 8, 2019 Gigantic 11 billion year-old galaxies viewed for first time ever Astronomers have spotted 39 enormous galaxies that are billions of light-years away from Earth, creating large numbers of stars the size of our Sun. They've also identified several other celestial objects previously unknown to humanity.
August 8, 2019 Thousands of tardigrades stranded on the Moon after lunar lander crash When you look up at the moon, there may now be a few thousand water bears looking back at you.
August 7, 2019 Bernie Sanders pledges to reveal info on aliens if he wins in 2020 Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., pledged that as president he would disclose government information about aliens and unidentified flying objects.
August 7, 2019 'Earth-like exoplanets' 12.5 light-years away could have liquid water and be home to life, study suggests Two recently discovered "Earth-like" exoplanets could have liquid water on their surfaces and potentially support life, according to a new study.
August 7, 2019 Moon and Mercury may have thick deposits of ice, study suggests It's been known for some time that there are ice deposits on Mercury and the Moon, including frozen water found on the surface of the Moon last year.
August 6, 2019 Gigantic black hole with mass 40 billion times the Sun discovered by astronomers Astronomers have potentially discovered a supermassive black hole located 700 million light years from Earth that has a mass 40 billion times that of the Sun.
August 6, 2019 Evidence of 14B year-old 'time machine' star found 35,000 light-years from Earth Astronomers have found evidence of one of the oldest stars in the universe, a star that lived 13.8 billion years ago, nestled inside a star that's nearly as old.
August 6, 2019 Martian meteor collision may have triggered a 1,000-foot tsunami Three and a half billion years ago, a blood-red wall of water as tall as a skyscraper may have hurtled across the surface of Mars, inundating an area of land larger than the United States.
