LightYears

The upcoming Pixar animated movie Lightyear features a gay couple and reportedly, also a kiss between the two; a first for any major Disney animated film. However, many have criticised the…

On August 15, 1977, a mysterious 'Wow!' signal had briefly blared through a radio telescope that lasted for 72 seconds. Now, almost half a century later, researchers may have discovered the…

The universe is full of enigma and mysteries. Millions of objects move around undetected. In fact, there's no dearth of such objects lurking in our very own Milky Way galaxy. We know very…

In a fascinating discovery, scientists have found an exoplanet circling a star 17,000 light-years away. The Kepler Space Telescope, which is now retired, made the discovery in 2016. It's the…

This graph says that the vertical position of the rocket increases by a (nearly) constant amount from one frame to the next. In physics, we call that "constant velocity." Since this is a…

Ever wondered what songs on radio broadcasts you would hear if you moved light-years away from the Earth into space? Lightyear.fm website can help answer the question to a certain degree. It…

A giant arc of galaxies appears to stretch across more than 3 billion light-years in the distant universe. If the arc turns out to be real, it would challenge a bedrock assumption of…

NASA has released a stunning image of a galactic cluster — ACO S 295 — that is 3.5 billion light-years away from the Earth taken by the Hubble telescope. It is in the middle of an…