Space is the place for science news it seems, with a number of astounding discoveries from the cosmic realm getting us all starry-eyed this week.
The main headlines were the groundbreaking discovery of gravitational waves rippling in the cosmic background, and the first map of the Milky Way made with matter, not light, by tracing the galactic origins of thousands of "ghost particles," or neutrinos. However, we also had distortions in space-time putting Einstein's theory of relativity to the test, carbon compounds crucial to life found in star system 1,000 light-years from Earth, rare streaks of light above the U.S. signaling the fast-approaching solar maximum, and an alien planet hiding in our solar system — and it’s not "Planet X."
