Tesla recently announced that it purchased $1.5 billion worth of bitcoin. In a recent statement, the company claimed it bought the bitcoin for “more flexibility to diversify further and maximize returns on our cash.” Tesla also added that it would ...
Even if we’re millions of kilometers away, we didn’t forget Mars’ event this week! The Red Planet celebrated a new year yesterday (February 7), as per our calendar-keeping on Earth. One year on our planetary friend is 687 Earth days ...
How we imagine the Milky Way galaxy might not be entirely true. Most of us think about the galaxy as a massive central mass circled by a flat disc of stars that twirls around it. That might be the case, ...
Recently, physicists have begun work at improving the gravitational wave detectors. Their goal is to double the next-gen detectors’ sensitivity by enabling a technique dubbed “squeezing.” The gravitational waves are known for their weak signal, and the detectors, like VIRGO ...
A team of astronomers released new data of a bizarre star located approximately 15,000 light-years away from our planet. What’s more intriguing is that this type of star is also unique and displays never-seen-before activity. As the Universe sometimes unfolds ...
New research shows how a mineral that repeatedly shows up on Mars is here on Earth. How could this be possible? Apparently, the Antarctic Ice is not just ice. Very deep-buried, there’s more yet to be explored. Researchers found a ...
Venus has created quite the buzz recently, due to one chemical element that keeps puzzling scientists’ work. Phosphine was detected on Venus back in 2017, but it wasn’t announced until last year. Many papers are trying to debunk or support ...
Recent exoplanet-hunting mission puts in the spotlight a quite odd cosmic body. Without clouds, but with a clear atmosphere, an exoplanet unveiled itself in front of the space telescopes’ eyes, like nothing seen before. As intriguing and strange as it ...
NASA’s successful OSIRIS-REx will soon return home. The spacecraft will begin a two-year trip back to Earth on May 10. During last year sample collection event, OSIRIS-REx gathered enough material from asteroid Bennu’s surface. The mission was a real success ...
There are a few black hole categories, such as stellar-mass black holes, intermediate, and the most challenging, the supermassive black holes (SMBH). SMBH can reach the order of millions to billions of solar masses. So far, astronomers captured one at ...