Why Would a Star Flicker?

More than 1,000 light-years away from Earth is a star that has been baffling astronomers since it was first observed in data collected by the Kepler mission. It’s largely known as Tabby’s Star, after assistant professor Tabetha Boyajian from the Louisiana State University department of Physics and Astronomy. For no obvious reason, Tabby’s Star has…

“Ghost Particle” Traced

Scientists have been able to trace the origins of a ghostly subatomic particle, a neutrino that travelled 3.9 billion light-years to Earth, for the first time. The tiny, high-energy cosmic particle was discovered by sensors deep in the Antarctic ice in the IceCube Detector. Scientists and observatories around the world were able to trace the…

Fast Radio Bursts … from Where?

One of the top scientific news articles you might be interested in concerns the only known repeating fast radio burst in the universe. Researchers at Breakthrough Listen, a scientific research program dedicated to finding evidence of intelligent life in the universe has not ruled out the fact that the signal may come from an advanced…