Mysterious fast radio burst challenges what scientists thought they knew
Last summer, astronomer Calvin Leung was excited to analyze data from a newly built radio telescope.
His goal was to pinpoint the exact location of...
Bullseye! Hubble spots ripples in space from a galaxy collision
What happens when one galaxy shoots a bigger galaxy right through the heart?
Like a rock thrown into a pond, the smashup creates a splash-up...
Gaia was right. It did find a planet.
The ESA’s Gaia mission mapped the positions and velocities of stars with extreme precision by measuring about one billion stars multiple times.
It created a...
NASA’s Hubble captures a distant supernova in Gemini
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning image of a faraway galaxy that recently hosted a supernova.
This galaxy, located about 600 million light-years...
How aliens might detect Earth: A new study on our signals to space
A team of scientists led by Dr. Sofia Sheikh from the SETI Institute has investigated a fascinating question:
If there were an alien civilization with...
White dwarfs pause their cooling, giving planets a second chance for habitability
When we first began searching for planets around other stars, one of the surprising discoveries was that there are planets orbiting white dwarfs.
The first...
Is there life out there? The existence of other technological species is highly likely
We live in a golden age for space exploration.
Scientists are gathering massive amounts of new information and scientific evidence at a record pace.
Yet the...
Scientists discover ancient space salts in pristine asteroid samples
Researchers from Curtin University have made a groundbreaking discovery after analyzing some of the most well-preserved asteroid samples ever collected.
These samples, taken from the...
Earth’s atmosphere is cleaning itself – a breakthrough discovery
Scientists have discovered that the Earth's atmosphere is getting better at removing air pollution, including methane, one of the most powerful greenhouse gases.
This new...
Astronomers have spied an asteroid that may be heading for Earth
On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from Earth.
Follow-up observations have revealed...