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...
Astronomers overcome Earth’s atmosphere to capture clear radio images
An international team of researchers led by astronomers from Leiden University in the Netherlands has achieved a groundbreaking feat by producing the first clear...
A strange intermittent radio signal from space has astronomers puzzled
When astronomers turn our radio telescopes out towards space, we sometimes detect sporadic bursts of radio waves originating from across the vast expanse of...
What impact does ozone have on an exoplanet
As we discover more and more exoplanets—and the current total is in excess of 5,200—we continue to try to learn more about them.
Astrobiologists busy...