The Impossible Black Holes That Shouldn't Exist
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In 2023, gravitational wave detectors caught two black holes colliding 7 billion light years away, both spinning at nearly the speed of light and both existing in a mass range where black holes simply cannot form. The mystery baffled astronomers until rese...
- By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
- On: Tue, 11 Nov 2025 23:48 +0000
What a Missing Signal Tells Us About Alien Worlds
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When astronomers detected potential biosignatures in the atmosphere of exoplanet K2-18 b, it raised a critical question, ‘could this world's atmosphere even survive its host star's radiation?’ A new study using the Very Large Array searched for radio e...
- By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
- On: Tue, 11 Nov 2025 21:35 +0000
The Hidden Danger of Lunar Micrometeoroid Storms
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NASA's plans for a permanent lunar base face the threat of up to 23,000 micrometeoroid impacts per year travelling at speeds of 70 kilometres per second. A new study quantifies this relentless bombardment for the first time, revealing that even microscopi...
- By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
- On: Tue, 11 Nov 2025 21:23 +0000
Google's Plan for Space-Based Computing
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Google's Project Suncatcher is fascinating solution to AI's massive energy demands…. building data centres in space powered directly by the solar power. The company's new research explores the possibility of constellations of satellites equipped with pro...
- By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
- On: Tue, 11 Nov 2025 20:51 +0000
Scientists Just Built A 1-Kilometer Resolution Digital Twin Of Earth
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Weather forecasting is notoriously wonky - climate modeling even more so. But their slowing increasing ability to predict what the natural world will throw at us humans is largely thanks to two things - better models and increased computing power. Now, a n...
- By: Andy Tomaswick (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/andy-tomaswick)
- On: Tue, 11 Nov 2025 18:34 +0000
This New Robot Has A Clever Spin On Lunar Mining
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Work continues on designs for robots that can help assist the first human explorers on the Moon in over half a century. One of the most important aspects of that future trip will be utilizing the resources available on the Moon’s surface, known as in-sit...
- By: Andy Tomaswick (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/andy-tomaswick)
- On: Tue, 11 Nov 2025 11:46 +0000