Why Consciousness Might Not Belong to Us Alone
Reported by Universe Today
We have spent centuries being knocked off our pedestal. Earth isn't the centre of the Solar System, the Sun isn't the centre of the Galaxy, and we are not the point around which everything else turns. Now two philosophers want to take the demotion one step...
- By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
- On: Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:41 +0000
The Little Red Dots That Turned Out to Be Black Holes in Disguise
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For three years they've been one of the strangest puzzles in astronomy. Tiny, mysterious red dots scattered across the early universe, so abundant and so bright that some researchers wondered if they had "broken" cosmology itself. Now the James Webb Space ...
- By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
- On: Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:40 +0000
The Galaxy's Spin Is Hiding in the Hum of Gravitational Waves
Reported by Universe Today
We are used to thinking of gravitational waves as messengers from catastrophes in space, the ringing of spacetime after black holes collide for example. But our own Galaxy hums with a fainter, steadier signal, a chorus of millions of unseen binary stars. A...
- By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
- On: Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:12 +0000
FAST Finds a Pulsar in an Almost Flawless Circular Orbit
Reported by Universe Today
Somewhere in the plane of the Milky Way, a dead star is spinning 220 times a second, and it's circling its companion in almost the most perfect orbit astronomers have ever measured. China's giant FAST radio telescope has just found it, and the shape of tha...
- By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
- On: Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:50 +0000
New Study Assesses Titan's Resources and their Potential Uses
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In a recent NASA-supported study, researchers assessed Titan's resource base and how it could be leveraged for ISRU. Compared with other locations under study (the Moon, Mars, etc.), they concluded that there is unrivaled potential for human exploration an...
- By: Matthew Williams (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/houseofwilliams)
- On: Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:15 +0000
Venus’ Strange Rotation Was Likely Triggered By A High Velocity Moon-Sized Impactor
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Venus’ extraordinarily slow retrograde rotation was likely caused by a chance encounter with a moon-sized impactor. One that some 4.5 billion years ago likely slammed into our sister planet at a high angle and high velocity....
- By: Bruce Dorminey (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/bruce)
- On: Sun, 14 Jun 2026 14:15 +0000