Space & Future
How your flight home could be broadcasting Earth’s location to aliens
Every time you take off from Heathrow, land at JFK, or pass through any major airport, you might be inadvertently announcing humanity's existence to...
What if you threw a paper airplane from the space station
Sometimes there are profound questions in life that must be answered, like “What is the meaning of existence?”, “Are we alone in the universe?”...
“Third Wheel” star brings companions closer together
When white dwarfs—the hot remnants of stars like our Sun—are orbited closely by another star, they sometimes steal mass away from their companion.
The stolen...
Dark matter could create dark dwarfs at the center of the Milky Way
Dark matter is one of Nature's most confounding mysteries.
It keeps particle physicists up at night and cosmologists glued to their supercomputer simulations.
We know it's...
Space ice isn’t just frozen water—it’s full of tiny crystals
Ice in space, long believed to be completely disordered like frozen water without structure, is turning out to be more complex.
New research from University...
Tiny space pebbles reveal the birth of new solar systems
Astronomers have taken a big step forward in understanding how solar systems like ours are born.
Using a special set of radio telescopes in the...
Scientists capture stunning image of a distant black hole jet
In a major breakthrough for astronomy, scientists have captured an incredibly detailed image of a powerful jet shooting out from a distant black hole.
This...
Astronomers have spied an interstellar object zooming through the Solar System
This week, astronomers spotted the third known interstellar visitor to our Solar System.
First detected by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) on July...
Scientists discover surprising star birth patterns in ancient galaxies
Astronomers are now getting an unprecedented look at what galaxies looked like when the Universe was still in its infancy.
Thanks to a new study...
Astronomers have discovered another puzzling interstellar object − this third one is big, bright...
Astronomers manning an asteroid warning system caught a glimpse of a large, bright object zipping through the solar system late on July 1, 2025.
The...
Old Hubble Space Telescope photos unlock the secret of a rogue planet
Astronomers have achieved a first in exoplanet hunting by using the Hubble Space Telescope images to investigate a mysterious event that could reveal the...
A star detonated as a supernova… twice
All supernovae are massively energetic stellar explosions.
The classic supernovae are massive stars that explode near the end of their lives, leaving behind either a...
Deep Space
Habitable worlds are found in safe places
When we think of exoplanets that may be able to support life, we hone in on the habitable zone.
A habitable zone is a region...
An Earth-like planet around a dead sun provides some reassurance about the future of...
In about five billion years, our Sun will exit its main sequence phase and transition to its red giant phase.
At this point, the Sun...
Clay subsoil at Earth’s driest place may signal life on Mars
Earth’s most arid desert may hold a key to finding life on Mars.
Diverse microbes discovered in the clay-rich, shallow soil layers in Chile’s dry...
Galaxies evolved surprisingly quickly in the early universe
Anyone familiar with astronomy will know that galaxies come in a fairly limited range of shapes, typically; spiral, elliptical, barred-spiral and irregular.
The barred-spiral galaxy...
Comets might have brought water to our planet billions of years ago
The mystery of why Earth has so much water, allowing our "blue marble" to support an astounding array of life, is clearer with new...