Like humanity, alien civilizations need to harvest energy. But how to power your civilization, if the energy of a star is not enough? Today’s authors discuss a fascinating prospect: Harvesting the energy of black holes with Dyson spheres.
Why is the Universe’s expansion accelerating? We have no idea! But, maybe fast radio bursts can provide some clues.
Today’s bite explores the landing site selection process for Dragonfly, an upcoming rotorcraft mission to Saturn’s moon Titan
Lightcurve folding is frequently used to make signals in the data clearer. Today’s author describes a novel way to use the folding method to pick out exomoon signals from exoplanet transit lightcurves.
Identifying the source of the nuclear flare in SDSS J154843.06+220812.6
Today’s paper investigates a mysterious stellar explosion that resulted when a black hole or a neutron star crashed into a star.