An amateur astronomer in South Africa has detected a bright new surface feature rising above the…
Category: Space
The fastest-growing black hole in the universe devours the equivalent of one sun every damn day
A study published yesterday in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society for the first…
Japanese Dark Matter Detector is Seeing a “Surprising Excess of Events” – Universe Today
A search for dark matter has found an extra signal in their data that could point…
So that’s where all the exomoons are hiding, at least according to their shadows
Moons seem to be everywhere these days. There should be fresh boot prints on our own…
NASA says the SpaceX Crew Dragon module parked at the ISS is generating way more power than expected
So far, NASA seems pleased. Read more at Futurism…
A supermassive black hole lit up a collision of two smaller black holes
First detected in may 2019 and dubbed s190521g, merger happened about 4 billion light-years away. With…
Drain brain: Nasa offers prize money for best lunar loo design
Agency hopes to attract novel solutions for its Artemis mission to the moon in 2024. Read…
Black holes may merge with light of a trillion suns, scientists say
First optical observation made of phenomenon previously thought to occur in darkness Read more at the…
Satellites documented COVID-19’s impact from space
A new dashboard monitors the pandemic’s economic and environmental effects. Read more at The Verge…
A Black Hole Collided With Something That Shouldn’t Exist
Astronomers are puzzling over observations that show a black hole smashing into a mystery object of…
The Moon Is Lopsided, And New Research Could Finally Explain Why
The Moon may be Earth’s closest cosmic neighbour – and the only extraterrestrial body humans have…
Researchers verify ‘extremely odd’ black hole physics
A team at the University of Glasgow set out to validate British physicist Roger Penrose’s 1969…
New observations suggest the Universe might be expanding at a higher rate than we thought
Understanding the Hubble constant, the rate at which the Universe expands, is one of the crucial…
Scientists reveal a lost eight billion light years of universe evolution
Last year, the Advanced LIGO-VIRGO gravitational-wave detector network recorded data from 35 merging black holes and…
A cosmic baby is discovered, and it’s brilliant
Astronomers tend to have a slightly different sense of time than the rest of us. They…
Study says Milky Way may host six billion Earth-like worlds
Researchers suggest odds of a g-type star hosting an earth-like planet are roughly one-in-five. Study published…
Solar Orbiter lines up historic photo in closest pass to the Sun
The UK-built satellite came within 77 million kilometres of its surface on Monday. Read more at…
When were the *very* first stars born? Earlier than we can see, even with Hubble
When you look up at the night sky, you can see thousands of stars. The fact…
A green glow has appeared around Mars
The Mars Trace Gas Orbiter spotted a phenomenon on Mars that has also been observed around…
36 Alien Civilizations In The Milky Way? The Science Behind A Ridiculous Headline
Intelligent aliens may be detectable from a variety of signals: electromagnetic, from planet modification, or because…