The absorption of a small galaxy into a larger spiral galaxy seems to have acted as a 'black hole delivery system' leaving a distant galaxy with two supermassive black holes that will eventually coll… [+3182 chars]
For the James Webb Space Telescope, the milestones have been one after another. A little more than a month since this trailblazing instrument left humanity in awe following the release of its first i… [+6717 chars]
For the James Webb Space Telescope, the milestones have been one after another. A little more than a month since this trailblazing instrument left humanity in awe following the release of its first i… [+6717 chars]
NASA released the first images from the James Webb space telescope in July and the spacecraft hasn’t stopped yet. On top of official image releases, the raw data captured by the telescope has yielded… [+2109 chars]
A 4-billion-year-old piece of Earth's crust the size of Ireland is lurking beneath Western Australia, new research finds. This piece of crust is among the oldest on Earth, though not the oldest. Th… [+3915 chars]
Comment on this story Using his newly built telescope, Galileo Galilei gazed up at the sky in January 1610, spotted several bright objects around Jupiter and spent weeks plotting how they changed po… [+4247 chars]
Comment on this story Using his newly built telescope, Galileo Galilei gazed up at the sky in January 1610, spotted several bright objects around Jupiter and spent weeks plotting how they changed po… [+4247 chars]
Estimated read time: 1-2 minutes A BLACK HOLE It's 2022. Billionaire tourists are flying to space every few months. NASA is getting ready to launch a rocket to the moon. And the new James Webb Space… [+1519 chars]
China is building the world's largest array of telescopes dedicated to studying the sun with the aim to improve the understanding of coronal mass ejections which can cause chaos on and above Earth. … [+2232 chars]
The dazzling beauty of a snowflake is testament to the amazing shapes water can form below freezing point. Placed under pressure, the elegant dance of the H2O molecule contorts into something bizarr… [+3847 chars]
In the coming decade, in 2033, NASA and China intend to send astronauts to Mars for the first time in history. This presents numerous challenges, ranging from logistical and technical issues to ensur… [+6386 chars]
Since it was first proposed in 1927, the Big Bang Theory has remained the leading explanation for how the universe began. The theory suggests that the universe started as just a single point, which … [+6060 chars]
