Advertisement Astronomers have discovered a record-breaking star system. It’s called IGR J17062-6143, and it’s a very compact binary, where one of the stars is a rapidly spinning, superdense neutron star called an X-ray pulsar. The two stars take just 38 minutes to orbit each other. That’s the fastest orbital period of any X-ray pulsar binary […]
Welcome to “On This Day … in Space!” where we peer back in our archives to find historic moments in spaceflight and astronomy. So enjoy a blast from the past with Space.com’s Hanneke Weitering to look back at what happened on this day in space! On April 28, 2001, the world’s first space tourist hitched […]
Located in Delhi's capital city of India, the Ghazipur landfill continues to grow at an astonishing rate: within a year, it is expected to be higher than the Taj Mahal, one of the country's most iconic landmarks. At 65 meters high, the pile was once dubbed 'Mount Everest' by the inhabitants of the capital […]