Astronomers are a step closer to revealing the properties of dark matter enveloping our Milky Way galaxy, thanks to a...
The new James Webb Space Telescope passed another major milestone over the weekend, deploying its primary mirror – th...
In December 2020, Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft dropped its treasure through the Earth’s atmosphere and onto the red d...
Astronomers spying on a nearby stellar system have observed a massive burst of energy and charged particles, known as...
How was the asteroid belt formed? I heard there was supposed to have been another planet there, but there doesn’t see...
The Southern Cross holds a special place in the hearts of those Down Under. Its four bright stars and one smaller sta...
Astronomers have discovered the closest pair of supermassive black holes to Earth ever observed. The pair is also clo...
Where did the Earth’s oceans come from? For the past few years, astronomers have theorised that asteroids and comets ...
In 2017, NASA announced the discovery of seven rocky, Earth-sized planets orbiting in the habitable zone of a star ca...
Every day, the Earth is bombarded by gamma rays travelling all the way from the depths of space. These rays, in the f...
Where do Martian meteorites come from? This seems like a tautological question, but in order to learn more about the ...
Astronomers have examined the remains of exoplanets that were devoured by their parent stars, to find that these worl...
