We all think that our Milky Way galaxy is downright huge, but what if it’s actually even bigger than astronomers previously believed? As it happens, this...
The center of our galaxy is a very weird, very crowded place filled with all sorts of monsters. The most important is a supermassive black hole...
What’s better than Earth? A Super Earth of course! Then again, it all depends on how we define “better.” True to its name, a Super Earth...
A group of astrophysicists have generated a comprehensive 3D map of the Universe, spanning almost two billion light-years and offering the most detailed picture of our...
When we think about the instruments astronomers use to study celestial objects, we usually imagine the classical telescope, or perhaps the radio antenna – a single,...
On April 24 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into low Earth orbit on board the Space Shuttle Discovery, and deployed the next day. Named...
Forget Earth’s mightiest heroes, NASA is launching an initiative that brings together some of Earth’s most brilliant scientists. Instead of “The Avengers”, the agency has named its latest initiative...
Even though we’ve ventured far into the Solar System and our telescopes tell us a lot about distant stars and galaxies, the inner workings of our...
How do we tell how old something is? Well, one way of doing that is by comparing it with something else we already know the age...
Dark matter is one of the biggest subjects in physics at the moment and has been considered to be one of the mysteries of physics for...