Space junk is littering the final frontier and Russia has contributed more to the collection than any other country. A new infographic reveals which countries owns the garbage floating in space and Russia is responsible for 14,403 pieces and the US comes in second with 8,734. The compiled data shows more than 30,000 particles from … Read more
A star orbiting the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy does so in a way that proves physicist Albert Einstein right – again. The star, called S2, orbits Sagittarius A* in a rosette shape, blipping out from the elliptical orbit at random points – an idea predicted by Einstein over … Read more
Earth has a new mini-moon: Asteroid the size of a washing machine has been orbiting Earth for the past three years Astronomers tracked an asteroid in the sky and found it is orbiting Earth The asteroid, seen on Feb. 15., has now been confirmed as a mini-moon It is six to 12 feet in diameter and … Read more