Mysterious black holes might be clues to dark matter
Did you know that for every kilogram of visible matter in the universe, there are 5 kilograms of invisible matter?
This mysterious "dark matter" can't...
Where did Venus’s water go?
It should not be surprising that Venus is dry.
It is famous for its hellish conditions, with dense sulphurous clouds, rains of acid, atmospheric pressures...
Euclid space telescope is finding free floating planets in Orion Too
There are likely millions of “rogue” or free-floating planets (FFPs) spread through the galaxy.
These planets, which aren’t big enough to become stars but also...
We’re now just weeks away from a stellar explosion you can see with your...
I’ve seen some pretty incredible things using my eyes.
First off of course, is the stunning sight of a dark star filled sky, then there...
Earliest metal discovery challenges our understanding of first galaxies
Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery by detecting carbon in a galaxy that existed just 350 million years after the Big Bang.
This is the...
Chinese astronauts just repaired space debris damage outside the station
A pair of Chinese taikonauts have completed an eight-hour spacewalk repairing damage to the Tiangong Chinese Space Station’s solar panels.
It’s believed the damage was...
An earth-sized exoplanet found orbiting a Jupiter-sized star
Red dwarf stars, also known as M-dwarfs, dominate the Milky Way’s stellar population.
They can last for 100 billion years or longer. Since these long-lived...
Scientists discover the slowest-spinning neutron star
Australian scientists from the University of Sydney and CSIRO have discovered a neutron star spinning more slowly than any other known neutron star.
This remarkable...
Scientists find new ways to detect high-frequency gravitational waves
A team of researchers, led by Professor Tao Liu from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, has proposed a new method to...
Webb Telescope’s quest to find habitable planets
Exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system, are common in our galaxy.
Some of these planets orbit in the "habitable zone" of their star, a...