Water in Ganymede’s atmosphere
Hubble Space Telescope finds evidence for water around Jupiter’s largest moon.
An international team of astronomers has used Hubble to peer into the atmosphere of Jupiter’s biggest moon, Ganymede ...
Astronomy
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Hubble, Hubble, toil ends trouble
Malfunctioning space telescope back in operation.
The Hubble Space Telescope is back online – for now. ‘Our window on the universe’, as it’s known, suffered a serious ...
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Balloon-borne telescope to rival Hubble
High-in-the-sky telescope set to study dark matter from the edge of the atmosphere.
An international team of astronomers has built a telescope that will be carried to the edge of space by a helium ball...
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Jet black: ‘little’ black holes emulate their supergiant siblings
Jet activity in radio galaxy mirrors that of the far larger Messier 87 galaxy.
Just like younger siblings, ‘little’ black holes do their best to act the same as big ones, according to a study publ...
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Earth orbital space: who’s in charge?
As companies send out thousands of low-orbit satellites to build a global internet, will astronom...
Tech billionaire Elon Musk has said that his Starlink satellite-based internet will be able to connect anyone, anywhe...
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Operator, get me Voyager on the line …
Our ability to communicate with spacecraft near and far is near capacity as the galactic internet...
Credit: NASAThe interplanetary switchboard is getting jammed, NASA has warned. Its Deep Space Network – a global ...
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Teardrop star reveals hidden supernova doom
In a rare occurrence, a white dwarf pulls a subdwarf towards its demise.
Astronomers have spotted a teardrop star that suggests two dwarfs are spiralling towards supernova doom.The team,...
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An algorithm that labels galaxies
New neural network can speed up galactic classification.
Classifying galaxies currently needs to be done manually, requiring a lot of time from astronomers and citizen scient...
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Let’s rock: Happy International Asteroid Day!
We’re ready to rock your world with out-of-this-world rocks.
Dinosaurs might not share our enthusiasm, but here at Cosmos we thought we’d take the opportunity to celebrate Intern...
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Which alien stars can see Earth?
A new catalogue identifies thousands of nearby stars that could spot Earth’s transit across our Sun.
US astronomers have identified over a thousand nearby star systems that would have been in the right position to view...
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SKA's low-frequency radio telescope promises a first look at the origin of the Universe
When you’re in charge of the largest low-frequency telescope ever built and the reams of data it ...
Here’s an interesting fact: the big discoveries that some telescopes are famous for are not necessarily what they wer...
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Kepler 52 and Kepler 968: Young exoplanet siblings
The exoplanets Kepler 52 and Kepler 968 are really part of a bigger system.
Two exoplanet systems - Kepler 52 and Kepler 968 - that have been drifting across the galaxy for hundreds of millions...