Astronomy
Rocky Planets Orbiting White Dwarf Stars Could be the Perfect Places to Search for Life
Some very powerful telescopes will see first light in the near future. One of them is the long-awaited James Webb…
You’re Looking at Spiral Galaxies, Already Forming When the Universe was Just a Baby
The ALPINE survey recently observed 118 galaxies dated to just 1-1.5 billion years ago, and found that the early galaxies…
Fomalhaut’s Planet Has Gone Missing, But it Might Have Been Something Even More Interesting
Ongoing observations of the Fomalhaut system using Hubble data has revealed that the mysterious "disappearing" exoplanet may not have been…
Watch Asteroid 1998 OR2 Zip Past Earth This Week
A fascinating asteroid nammed 1998 OR2 pays our neck of the inner solar system a visit early Wednesday morning, and…
A Star is Orbiting the Milky Way’s Black Hole and Moving Exactly How Einstein Predicted it Should
After almost 30 years of observing a star that orbits the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy,…
This is the Final Picture NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope
NASA has just released a mosaic of the California Nebula, which was created from the final images snapped by the…
Astronomers Find a Six-Planet System Which Orbit in Lockstep With Each Other
Astronomers have found a star system with six exoplanets that orbit with an almost perfect 3:2 resonance.
Astronomers Detected a Black Hole Merger With Very Different Mass Objects
In another first, the latest gravitational wave event to be detected came from the merger of two black holes of…
Super-Supernova Released Ten Times More Energy than a Regular Supernova
It's easy to run out of superlatives and adjectives when your puny human language is trying to describe humongously-energetic events…
BepiColombo captured images of Earth during its recent flyby
Farewell! Even though the BepiColombo mission launched for Mercury in 2018, it's still hanging around the Earth - at least,…