Astronomy
Hubble Sees a Galaxy With Spiral Arms, Surrounded by Other Spiral Arms
After 30 years, Hubble is still providing us with breathtaking images - like this one of NGC 2273, a spiral…
Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov Formed in a Very Cold Environment
Using the ALMA array, astronomers were able to detect the chemical composition of an interstellar object as 2I/Borisov began releasing…
Astronomers Watch a Nova Go From Start to Finish for the First Time
A nova is a dramatic episode in the life of a binary pair of stars. It's an explosion of bright…
Catching the Peak of the 2020 April Lyrids
Stuck at home with clear skies? We’re all in a similar situation, as the ongoing pandemic sees most of the…
Astronomers Might Have Imaged a Second Planet Around Nearby Proxima Centauri – and it Might Have a Huge Set of Rings
A new study by a team using data from the Very Large Telescope's SPHERE instrument, may have caught a direct…
Gravity is tested down to a scale smaller than the thickness of a human hair
Gravity was the first force of nature to be realized, and in the centuries since we first cracked the code…
An Earth-Sized World Orbiting in its Star’s Habitable Zone Was Found in Older Kepler Data
Searching through archival Kepler data has revealed another exoplanet around Kepler-1649, the most Earth-like exoplanet discovered to date
Astronomers Finally Think They Understand Where Interstellar Object Oumuamua Came From and How it Formed
'Oumuamua caused quite a stir when it visited our Solar System in 2017. It didn't stay long, however, and when…
Light Behaves Really Strangely Around a Black Hole
A new study led by Caltech researchers show that light can be reflected off of a black hole's disk by…
Astronomers Measure the Wind Speed on a Brown Dwarf for the First Time. Spoiler: Insanely Fast
In some ways, brown dwarfs are nature's stellar oddballs. A lot of stars exhibit strange behaviour at different times in…