The Milky Way galaxy has a history of violence. Over the Universe’s 13.8-billion-year lifespan, it has repeatedly collided with and...
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A high-energy neutrino traced back to a violent encounter between a black hole and a star needs a different origin...
Mysterious structures in the sky that have puzzled astronomers for decades might finally have an explanation – and it’s quite...
Let’s be honest: in the Solar System, there really is no good place for humans that isn’t Earth. But that...
Galaxies are a bit like fingerprints, or snowflakes. There are many of them out there, and they can have a...
Astronomers have found a collection of stars doing something unexpected. Within 160 light-years of the Solar System, four red dwarf...
If Earth’s temperature rises by a significant enough margin, we could see a major restructuring of the plankton species living...
The aviation industry is necessary for the world we live in today, but it places a strain on the environment,...
A source of powerful radio signals from distant space has deepened the mystery of fast radio bursts. An analysis of...
We now know, to within a tenth of a percent, how long a neutron can survive outside the atomic nucleus...
If there’s one thing our Solar System doesn’t have in short supply, it’s rocks. Small rocks, chunky rocks, dry rocks,...
Around 100 million light-years away, two galaxies are giving astronomers a sneak preview of the fate of the Milky Way....
