AvatarBenson BakerAvatarAvatarCERN: discovery sheds light on the great mystery of why the universe has less ‘antimatter’ than matterThe Conversation UK - Lars EklundIt’s one of the greatest puzzles in physics. All the particles that make up the matter around us, such electrons and protons, have antimatter …
AvatarBenson BakerFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoUh-oh: Black hole up to 100 billion times the mass of the sun has vanishedverified_publisherDigital Trends - By Georgina TorbetYou’d think that it would be hard to lose one of the largest black holes in the universe. However, scientists are currently being puzzled by the …
AvatarBenson BakerStoryboardEverything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Mariana TrenchAvatarCurated byWhat IfThe Mariana Trench: its monumental depth is what has attracted humankind to it for decades, and we’ve been working on finding ways to literally get to the bottom of things despite the risk of cracking under the physical pressure. Learn from this storyboard why it can act as a trash compactor for human waste while we still insist on sending people to see it all firsthand.
AvatarBenson BakerFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoStrange radio transmissions are emanating from Proxima Centaurislashgear.com - Shane McGlaunSomething strange is going on at the closest star to the sun. A mysterious radio signal is coming from Proxima Centauri, which is too dim to be seen …
AvatarBenson BakerAvatarAvatarA rare conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn will be visible to the naked eye for the first time in 800 yearsverified_publisherVox - Anya van WagtendonkThe planets will appear side by side for about an hour after sunset on December 21. Jupiter and Saturn are due to converge in their orbits on Monday, appearing as a double planet in the night sky — the first such occurrence in almost 800 years. The two planets have been near one another throughout …
AvatarBenson BakerAvatarAvatarSpaceX launches secret NRO satellite, its record-setting 26th launch of the yearverified_publisherCBS News - By William HarwoodSpaceX closed out a record year by launching its 26th Falcon 9 rocket Saturday, the second in less than a week, to put a classified National …
AvatarBenson BakerAvatarAvatarChina Promises To Share Findings From Its Returned Lunar Probeverified_publisherNPR - Jaclyn DiazAfter 23 days and some 230,000 miles traveled, China's Chang'e-5 lunar capsule returned to Earth during Thursday's predawn hours. It carried cargo of more than four pounds of the first fresh samples of moon rocks and other debris in more than 40 years. China's space agency said Thursday it intends …
AvatarBenson BakerFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoCanadian astronauts will start flying to the moon in 2023 with NASA's Artemis missionsspace.com - By Elizabeth HowellThe first one is scheduled to launch in 2023. Canada plans to send two astronauts on moon-bound missions. The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) announced …
AvatarBenson BakerAvatarAvatarWhoops, Humans Made a Space Barrier Around Earthverified_publisherPopular Mechanics - Caroline DelbertThe kicker? It's actually saving us. Forget the Kármán line—there’s a human-made space barrier to wonder about, first observed by NASA in 2017. The mysterious zone of anthropogenic space weather is caused by specific kinds of radio waves that we’ve been blasting into the atmosphere for decades, but …
AvatarBenson BakerAvatarAvatarScientists step closer to learning more about Planet NineAxios - Miriam KramerA planet spotted 336 light-years from Earth could help scientists learn more about whether there is a large "Planet Nine" or "Planet X" lurking in …
AvatarBenson BakerFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoHayabusa-2: Pieces of an asteroid found inside space capsulebbc.co.uk - By Paul RinconScientists have been greeted by the sight of jet black chunks of rock and soil from an asteroid after opening a capsule that returned from deep space a week ago. It's the first significant sample of material to be delivered to Earth from a space rock and was grabbed last year by Japan's Hayabusa-2 …