What Is Solar Mass? By Marcus Woo How would you measure the masses of objects as big as stars, galaxies and black holes? With solar mass. And you can thank Sir Isaac Newton for that.
Cold, Dark Stars Lurking in the Universe Could Act Like Single Giant Atoms By Marcus Woo Mysterious quantum stars that act like single, monster atoms could form surprisingly quickly.
Why Does the Earth Rotate? By Marcus Woo You can thank the solar system's head-spinning early years for Earth's rotation.
Black Holes Could Actually Be Colliding Wormholes By Marcus Woo The echoes of colliding wormholes would look different than the signal from merging black holes.
Ghostly 'Lightning' Waves Discovered Inside a Nuclear Reactor By Marcus Woo Whistler waves are normally produced in the atmosphere by lightning. They could help protect nuclear fusion reactors from runaway electrons.
Why Extraterrestrial Life May Be More Unlikely Than Scientists Thought By Marcus Woo Phosphorus is an essential element for life — but that there was enough of it for life to start on Earth might just have been a matter of luck, new findings suggest.
