In 2020 a team led by European Southern Observatory (ESO) astronomers reported the closest black hole to Earth, located just...
When a space rock survives the turbulent passage through Earth’s atmosphere and strikes the surface, it generates shockwaves that can...
Scientists have shown how the freezing of a ‘slushy’ ocean of magma may be responsible for the composition of the...
Today, ESA and the Zooniverse launch Rosetta Zoo, a citizen science project that invites volunteers to engage in a cosmic...
A rare exoplanet which orbits around two stars at once has been detected using a ground-based telescope by a team...
A California startup is joining much bigger players in the drive to explore settlement on the moon, as plans by...
Exoplanets are experiencing a stratospheric rise. In the three decades since the first confirmed planet orbiting another star, scientists have...
With multiple rovers landed and a mission set to return samples to Earth, Mars has dominated the search for life...
The Earth sits in a 1,000-light-year-wide void surrounded by thousands of young stars—but how did those stars form? In a...
From the Mars Ingenuity helicopter’s first powered flight on another world to the launch of the James Webb telescope that...
Using tens of thousands of stars observed by the Gaia space probe, astronomers from MPIA and Chalmers have revealed the...
An enormous comet—approximately 80 miles across, more than twice the width of Rhode Island—is heading our way at 22,000 miles...