Scientists have solved mystery of the runaway supermassive black hole
Astronomers recently discovered a long and narrow structure of stars formed eight thousand million years ago using the Hubble Space Telescope.
The trail is about...
What is the shape of the Milky Way galaxy?
Chinese researchers have published a paper in The Astrophysical Journal that suggests the Milky Way only has two arms, rather than the four that...
NASA’s Webb telescope reveals complex asteroid belts around nearby star Fomalhaut
Astronomers have discovered a complex asteroid belt around a young star called Fomalhaut, using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.
The debris belts, which are the...
Scientists find two super-Earths orbiting nearby star
Researchers using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have discovered two "super-Earth" exoplanets orbiting a nearby M-dwarf star known as TOI-2095.
The newfound alien worlds...
A lack of alien signals actually tells us a lot
Earth has not received a technoemission simply because Earth could be in a “void space”, meaning the area of space that Earth resides in has been devoid of technoemissions.
Advanced aliens may soon find life on Earth, study shows
A recent study suggests that aliens on nearby stars could detect Earth through radio signals leaked from the planet.
The research, conducted by scientists from...
Astronomers discover unusually bright star torn apart by supermassive black hole
Astronomers from Purdue University have discovered an incredibly bright and energetic star being torn apart by a supermassive black hole.
They found this remarkable cosmic...
How will the world end? Possibly with a belch, not a whimper.
When a star swallows a planet, does it belch? Leave crumbs? Get bigger?
No one could say for sure because no one had witnessed it...
Scientists discover a star swallowing a planet for the first time
As a star runs out of fuel, it will billow out to a million times its original size, engulfing any matter — and planets...
This bizarre exoplanet breaks all the orbital rules
In our solar system, the planetary orbits all have a similar orientation.
Their orbital planes vary by a few degrees, but roughly the planets all...