How we get planets from clumping dust
Our gleaming Earth, brimming with liquid water and swarming with life, began as all rocky planets do: dust.
Somehow, mere dust can become a life-bearing...
Exploring the impact of the strong force on gravitational wave signals
In the silent vastness of space, there's an invisible symphony of waves constantly moving around us. These aren't ordinary waves; they're gravitational waves, ripples...
Webb Telescope discovers dwarf galaxies’ role in reionizing the universe
Using the James Webb Space Telescope's advanced capabilities, scientists have made groundbreaking observations of the universe's earliest galaxies, shedding light on a critical period...
How Startups on earth could blaze a trail for cities on Mars
If future explorers manage to set up communities on Mars, how will they pay their way? What’s likely to be the Red Planet’s primary...
This planet-forming disk has more water than Earth’s oceans
Astronomers have detected a large amount of water vapour in the protoplanetary disk around a young star.
There’s at least three times as much water...
Scientists find the heaviest black hole duo
In the vastness of space, using data from the Gemini North telescope, astronomers have discovered the heaviest pair of supermassive black holes ever seen.
The...
Dwarf galaxies banished the darkness and lit up the early universe
During the Universe’s Dark Ages, dense primordial gas absorbed and scattered light, prohibiting it from travelling.
Only when the first stars and galaxies began to...
NASA’s Ingenuity won’t fly again because it’s missing a rotor blade
Ingenuity has been the first aerial vehicle on another world.
NASA announced the end of the Martian helicopter’s life at the end of its 72nd...
New moons found at Uranus and Neptune
Astronomers have found three new moons orbiting our Solar System’s ice giants. One is orbiting Uranus, and two are orbiting Neptune.
It took hard work...
A black hole discovery could force us to rethink how galaxies came to be
Peering deep into the infancy of the universe, the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) recently confirmed the discovery of the brightest and fastest...