New Planet

“Al Battani, or Al Batenius, a ninth-century Arab astronomer, astrologer and mathematician, from Syria, would be a great name for the new planet,” said astrophysicist Professor Hamid Al Naimiy, chancellor of the University of Sharjah and director of This image made available by NASA shows a combination of images captured by the New Horizons spacecraft … Read more

A black hole sun could be friendlier than you might expect. Planets orbiting a black hole – as they do in the film Interstellar – could sustain life, thanks to a bizarre reversal of the thermodynamics experienced by our sun and Earth. According to the Called K2, the revamped mission has already found more than … Read more