New maps have revealed a hidden hydrothermal system beneath a legendary lake in New Zealand, which serves as the setting for a famous Māori love story. Lake Rotorua sits at the heart of a massive ancient crater of a dormant volcano on New Zealand's North...

Venus (brighter object) and Mercury hang in the January sky in this 2015 shot. By midweek this week, Mercury is lost in twilight, so make sure to catch it early. Credit: Stuart Rankin (Flickr) Friday, February 2Last Quarter Moon occurs tonight at 6:18 P.M. EST....

Trappist-1 is a fascinating exoplanetary system. Seven worlds orbiting a red dwarf star just 40 light-years away. All of the worlds are similar to Earth in mass and size, and 3 or 4 of them are potentially habitable. Imagine exploring a system of life-rich...

Science & Exploration 01/02/2024 1966 views 29 likes Black holes are like temperamental toddlers. They spill food all the time, but ESA’s XMM-Newton has caught a black hole in the act of ‘flipping over the table’ during an otherwise civilised meal.This act...

On Episode 96 of This Week In Space, Tariq and Rod discuss science on television with History Channel producer Jeff Stepp.Space and science TV has come a long way since the old-time staples like Mr. Wizard and the original Bille Nye, The Science Guy. Stepp...

Back to Article List The work shows tidal disruption events are more widespread across different types of galaxies than previously observed. Credit: Courtesy of Megan Masterson, Erin Kara, et al At the heart of nearly all large galaxies lies a supermassive...

In the 1970s, astronomers deduced that the persistent radio source coming from the center of our galaxy was actually a supermassive black hole (SMBH). This black hole, known today as Sagittarius A*, is over 4 million solar masses and is detectable by the...

This false-colour image acquired by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission shows the city of Dubai and its surroundings in the United Arab Emirates.Zoom in to explore this image at its full 10 m resolution or click on the circles to learn more. Dubai is one of the...

Beloved action star Carl Weathers, who graced the silver screen in the first four "Rocky" movies, director John McTiernan's "Predator" and most recently on Disney+'s "The Mandalorian," died on Thursday, Feb. 1 at the age of 76.Weathers sadly passed away...

Music from planetary orbits, created by astronomers at the European Southern Observatory. Planets orbit their parent stars while separated by enormous distances – in our solar system, planets are like grains of sand in a region the size of a football field. The...