What do you do when you’re an intern at a British university that happens to own an advanced computer program capable of analyzing the stars? Well,...
Black holes are regions of space where gravity is so powerful that not even light can escape its pull. In a way, they are the darkest...
Mars has been in the news quite a lot these past few months, as I’m sure some of you may already know. This isn’t exactly a...
New data from NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) indicates that a massive star exploded in a lopsided way, the most convincing evidence yet put forward...
The MESSENGER spacecraft orbited Mercury for four years before colliding with a tiny planet a few days ago, collecting a wealth of new data which is...
An international scientific collaboration has just announced the discovery of the most distant galaxy ever measured. And since in space, when you’re looking further away you’re...
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...