Could we put out the sun with a sun-sized orb of water?
18 July 2023
What would happen if we pushed a sun-sized ball of water into our star? The Dead Planets Society podcast dives into the possibilities
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Black holes formed from dark matter could be making dead stars explode
6 December 2019
White dwarfs are burnt out stars that can explode into supernovae, and this process might be kicked off by a black hole made of dark matter in the heart of the star
NASA has found the remnants of India’s Vikram moon lander
3 December 2019
In September, India’s attempted moon landing ended in a crash, but the debris was lost. Now NASA has pinpointed where the Vikram lander smashed down
Quantum weirdness could allow a person-sized wormhole to last forever
11 October 2019
We were unsure if wormholes could exist long enough to allow a person through. Now calculations indicate they are extremely rare, but could last the age of the universe
Microbial life might drift in the atmospheres of failed stars
7 October 2019
Brown dwarfs are too large to be planets and too small to be stars, but they have gaseous atmospheres that may have all the ingredients needed for life
Weird repeating signals from deep space may be created by starquakes
4 October 2019
Fast radio bursts are mysterious signals from space. Some of them repeat many times - and these may be caused by powerful starquakes
The most powerful volcano on Jupiter's moon Io is about to explode
18 September 2019
The largest and most powerful of the 400 volcanoes on Jupiter’s moon Io erupts on a regular schedule – and it looks like the next bang could come any day now
Internet joke plan to 'raid' Area 51 gets stern reply from US military
17 July 2019
What has driven millions of people to sign up to "storm" Area 51, the US government's military base? It's clearly just a bit of fun by internet jokesters, but the US military isn't laughing
Exomoons that run away from their planets could become 'ploonets'
4 July 2019
We haven’t found any moons around exoplanets, which may be because they are flung away and turn into “ploonets” - a fate that could one day befall our own moon
NASA is going back to the moon but most people in the US don't want to
21 June 2019
Most people in the US don’t support going to the moon or Mars, according to a recent survey, but about half say they’d take a trip to orbit Earth if given the chance
