Why some distant exoplanets are mysteriously shrinking
Have you ever wondered about planets beyond our solar system, known as exoplanets? They come in all sizes, from small, rocky ones like Earth...
Scientists suspect there’s ice hiding on the Moon, and a host of missions are...
Building a space station on the Moon might seem like something out of a science fiction movie, but each new lunar mission is bringing...
How black holes consume entropy
Entropy is one of those fearsomely deep concepts that form the core of entire fields of physics (in this case, thermodynamics) that is unfortunately...
When stars consume their partners, we could detect a blast of neutrinos
You might be familiar with the bizarre ritual of the female praying mantis which,
I’m told, bites off the head and eats other body parts...
Scientists find aurora-like radio emission above a sunspot
A team of astronomers from the New Jersey Institute of Technology's Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research (NJIT-CSTR) has made an exciting discovery involving a sunspot,...
Growing black hole seen only 470 million years after the big bang
One of the big questions in cosmology asks when black holes first showed up in the early Universe.
Recently astronomers discovered the most distant (and...
How we get ultra-compact dwarf galaxies
I have been fascinated by galaxies for most of my adult life.
I find it amazing that, just as we can ascertain the lifecycle of...
How Einstein unlocked the quantum universe and created the photon
It started with a simple experiment that was all the rage in the early 20th century.
And as is usually the case, simple experiments often...
How to think about a four-dimensional universe
In Einstein’s famous theory of relativity the concepts of immutable space and time aren’t just put aside, they’re explicitly and emphatically rejected.
Space and time...
Scientists discover the earliest Milky Way-like galaxy
Astronomers, using the incredible James Webb Space Telescope, have made a groundbreaking discovery.
They've found a galaxy far away in the universe, which looks a...