Earth will get a second
Earth will get a second moon for about two months this year when a small asteroid begins to orbit our planet. The asteroid was discovered in August and is set…
Earth will get a second moon for about two months this year when a small asteroid begins to orbit our planet. The asteroid was discovered in August and is set…
Was the Milky Way set rippling by another galaxy?Buradaki/Alamy The Milky Way appears to have a vast ripple spreading out across at least a quarter of its disc. If confirmed,…
This story is part of our Cosmic Perspective series, in which we confront the staggering vastness of the cosmos and our place in it. Read the rest of the series…
Dead Planets Society is a podcast that takes outlandish ideas about how to tinker with the cosmos – from snapping the moon in half to causing a gravitational wave apocalypse…
Dark matter halos (yellow) form around galaxiesRalf Kaehler/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Delicate might not be the first word that springs to mind when you think of the Milky Way. But when…