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...
Some intelligent civilizations will be trapped on their worlds
Evolution has produced a wondrously diverse variety of lifeforms here on Earth.
It just so happens that talking primates with opposable thumbs rose to the...
Planets in binary star systems could be nice and habitable
The Star Wars world Tatooine is one of the most recognizable planets in the realm of science fiction.
It’s a harsh place, and its conditions...
The Kuiper Belt is much bigger than we thought
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is just over 8.8 billion km away, exploring the Kuiper Belt. This icy belt surrounds the Sun but it seems...