Star-gazers are in for a treat over Christmas, as Jupiter and Saturn will get closer to each other in Earth’s...
In 1838, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel won the race to measure the first distance to a star other than our Sun...
In July of 2015, NASA’s New Horizons probe made history when it became the first mission ever to conduct a close flyby of...
Scientists working with data from the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys’ Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) have discovered a...
In 2004, astronomers found something really weird. Around 6,200 light-years away, a star was found surrounded by a ring-shaped nebula...
The Universe seems like a lonely place. We know – we’re proof of it – that intelligent civilisations are possible....
Wow. A low-flying space rock set a record last Friday (appropriately, the 13th), when 2020 VT4 passed just under 400...
An astrophysicist and a neurosurgeon walked into a room. It may sound like the beginning of a bad joke, but...
At least one prebiotic molecule, an ingredient for building life, can form in the harsh environment of interstellar space, far...
For almost a century, astronomers have understood that the Universe is in a state of expansion. Since the 1990s, they...
The first object within the Milky Way galaxy caught emitting fast radio bursts is now officially a repeater. In a...
The Milky Way has collided and merged with multiple other galaxies over its long lifespan, but piecing together its history...
