Tag: astronomy

An almost flawless spherical shell has astronomers questioning what they know about stellar death.

Tomb art suggests the sky goddess Nut from ancient Egypt might reveal the oldest depiction of our galaxy.

Watch out for this weekend's full moon that's a little dimmer, a little smaller — and steeped in seasonal lore.

Jupiter may be out of the race for good.

ESA and JAXA's BepiColombo mission recently completed its last flyby of Mercury, revealing stunning details about the planet's volcanic plains ...

This incredible image captures the ghost of a supernova 100 light-years across.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a massive, dormant black hole from just 800 million years after ...

NASA’s New Horizons mission revolutionized our view of Pluto, revealing a vibrant, geologically active world full of surprises.

A binary system of a red giant and white dwarf is creating a spectacular show in R Aquarii.

In 1977, a mysterious radio signal known as the "Wow! Signal" hinted at extraterrestrial contact — now, scientists may finally ...

Ocean world or lava world? We're not certain yet.

In the wise words of George Constanza, it's shrinkage.

Some stars are brighter than others, but why? Size and distance matter.

We don't really know why these ultra-big structures get so big -- but finding more of them could help us ...

We can now see the movement of the many galaxies living in nearby superclusters.

Now we are sure it was once at least a triple star system.

Twinkle, twinkle, little star.

You live in a world where simulations are possible -- and we're not sure if everything *is* a simulation.

A "sea" of clouds from our neighbouring stars and the giant planets’ orbital resonance could explain how it was formed.

LAGER-z7OD1 is possibly one of the clusters that marked the end of the Dark Ages of the Universe.

Betelgeuse didn't go boom, it just coughed a bit.

ESA’s spacecraft collected important information about nearby stars, the solar system’s motion and provided a map with the motions of ...

We might have to revise the commonly accepted image of planets orbiting a parent star.

Better get your cold weather gear if you are planning to go there

A trifecta of recent discoveries has challenged models of galactic evolution, suggesting that galaxies could have formed much sooner in ...

The results from New Horizon's New Year's Day Flyby of Kuiper Belt Object Arrokoth are in, and it could just ...

The ESA’s CHEOPS telescope has finally launched kick-starting the next phase in exoplanet investigations.

Only 122 satellites have already been launched and the impact is already evident, they claim.

The study of molten exoplanets around Sun-like stars may provide answers as to the formation of Earth-like planets and the ...

This is a real victory for little projects.

There's also a whirly-dirly corollary associated with this new method.

NASA is funding a steam-powered spacecraft.

It's raining hydrocarbon on Titan.

These ancient people were much more savvy than we suspected.

Talk about a big count!

For the first time, astronomers have managed to confirm the existence of a black hole population surrounding the core of ...

Drones are hot on the poachers' hot traces.

Another one bites the dust.

Anthropologists have shown that Mayan tablets of math and astronomy have been greatly underestimated.

It may be possible to observe the presence of an advanced alien civilization by the effects produced if that civilization ...

It's likely not aliens, but it could be - and it's really, really strange.

It almost sounds too cheesy to be true: NASA wants to send a shuttle to an asteroid, pluck a piece ...

After years of planning and engineering schemes, the construction of the $1.4 billion telescope in Hawaii has finally begun. The ...

A while ago, we were telling you about the discovery of a huge exoplanet - a gas giant, found just 155 ...

It's a big, bad, lava world - and according to what we know about astronomy, it simply shouldn't exist. Artistic ...

A ring of radiation that scientists knew nothing about fleetingly surrounded our planet last year, before being blown away by ...

It's been quite a week for space exploration and some truly remarkable pictures were taken, here's the best ones. The ...