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A Star Orbiting a Black Hole Just Confirmed a Prediction Made by General Relativity
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A Star Orbiting a Black Hole Just Confirmed a Prediction Made by General Relativity
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A Star Orbiting a Black Hole Just Confirmed a Prediction Made by General Relativity
A single star called S2 looping around the supermassive black hole in the centre of our galaxy just demonstrated a prediction of general relativity in the most extreme environment we can test it in - putting yet another feather in the theory's alre
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It's Official: SpaceX Will Carry Its First Humans to The Space Station Next Month
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It's Official: SpaceX Will Carry Its First Humans to The Space Station Next Month
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It's Official: SpaceX Will Carry Its First Humans to The Space Station Next Month
A SpaceX rocket will send two American astronauts to the International Space Station on May 27, NASA announced on Friday, the first crewed spaceflight from the US in nearly a decade.
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Scientists Design Super-Light Carbon Nanostructure That's Stronger Than Diamond
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Scientists Design Super-Light Carbon Nanostructure That's Stronger Than Diamond
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Scientists Design Super-Light Carbon Nanostructure That's Stronger Than Diamond
Scientists have found a new way to structure carbon at the nanoscale, making a material that's superior to diamond on the strength-to-density ratio.
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Astronomers Find a Beautiful Six-Planet System in Almost Perfect Orbital Harmony
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Astronomers Find a Beautiful Six-Planet System in Almost Perfect Orbital Harmony
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Astronomers Find a Beautiful Six-Planet System in Almost Perfect Orbital Harmony
By now, we have discovered hundreds of stars with multiple planets orbiting them scattered throughout the galaxy. Each one is unique, but a system orbiting the star HD 158259, 88 light-years away, is truly special.
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Astronomers Find First-Ever Collision of Black Holes With a Strange Mass Discrepancy
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Astronomers Find First-Ever Collision of Black Holes With a Strange Mass Discrepancy
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Astronomers Find First-Ever Collision of Black Holes With a Strange Mass Discrepancy
Just over a year ago, on 12 April 2019, the LIGO-Virgo collaboration made a detection of gravitational waves, rippling out across space-time from the epic collision of two black holes from 2.4 billion light-years away. By now, marvellously, this is
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Here's How NASA Staff Are Operating The Mars Curiosity Rover From Home
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Here's How NASA Staff Are Operating The Mars Curiosity Rover From Home
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Here's How NASA Staff Are Operating The Mars Curiosity Rover From Home
In the midst of the current coronavirus pandemic, many of us find ourselves adjusting to working from home, with all the distractions of kids, pets, unfinished DIY projects and Netflix specials to contend with.
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Spacecraft Snaps Haunting Images of Our Little Blue Planet on Its Way to Mercury
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Spacecraft Snaps Haunting Images of Our Little Blue Planet on Its Way to Mercury
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Spacecraft Snaps Haunting Images of Our Little Blue Planet on Its Way to Mercury
Farewell! Even though the BepiColombo mission launched for Mercury in 2018, it's still hanging around the Earth – at least, briefly, as shown in this stunning image recently released by the European Space Agency.
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Solar Winds Hitting Earth Are Hotter Than They Should Be, And We May Finally Know Why
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Solar Winds Hitting Earth Are Hotter Than They Should Be, And We May Finally Know Why
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Solar Winds Hitting Earth Are Hotter Than They Should Be, And We May Finally Know Why
Our planet is constantly bathed in the winds coming off the blistering sphere at the centre of our Solar System. But even though the Sun itself is so ridiculously hot, once the solar winds reach Earth, they are hotter than they should be - and we m
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Scientists Engineer Gorgeous Glowing Plants That Shine Bright Their Entire Life Cycle
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Scientists Engineer Gorgeous Glowing Plants That Shine Bright Their Entire Life Cycle
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Scientists Engineer Gorgeous Glowing Plants That Shine Bright Their Entire Life Cycle
The glowing greenhouse of our dreams is still so very far away, but it just got a tantalising nudge closer.
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Stunning Hubble Images Detect a Comet Shattered in The Inner Solar System
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Stunning Hubble Images Detect a Comet Shattered in The Inner Solar System
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Stunning Hubble Images Detect a Comet Shattered in The Inner Solar System
A comet only just discovered in December of last year has already met its demise. It didn't reach perihelion, or its closest approach to the Sun. It didn't even pass inside Earth orbit. Yet Comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) has now absolutely shattered.
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Astronomers Predict Astonishing Flare From Two Swirling Supermassive Black Holes
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Astronomers Predict Astonishing Flare From Two Swirling Supermassive Black Holes
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Astronomers Predict Astonishing Flare From Two Swirling Supermassive Black Holes
In the depths of space 3.5 billion light-years away, two supermassive black holes are locked in one of the most extreme orbital dances in the Universe. Their riotous, somewhat erratically flaring death spiral has been documented for decades.
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Exclusive: We Might Have First-Ever Detection of a Fast Radio Burst in Our Own Galaxy
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Exclusive: We Might Have First-Ever Detection of a Fast Radio Burst in Our Own Galaxy
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Exclusive: We Might Have First-Ever Detection of a Fast Radio Burst in Our Own Galaxy
A Milky Way magnetar called SGR 1935+2154 may have just massively contributed to solving the mystery of powerful deep-space radio signals that have vexed astronomers for years.
In the early morning of 30 June 1908, something exploded over Siberia. The event shattered the normal stillness of the sparsely populated taiga, so powerful that it flattened an area of forest 2,150 square kilometres (830 square miles) in size - felling an estimated 80 million trees.
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New Paper Has a Wild Explanation For The Most Explosive 'Meteor Impact' on Record
In the early morning of 30 June 1908, something exploded over Siberia. The event shattered the normal stillness of the sparsely populated taiga, so powerful that it flattened an area of forest 2,150 square kilometres (830 square miles) in size - fe
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Here's The Real Truth About Those Viral Photos of 'Sand After a Lightning Strike'
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Here's The Real Truth About Those Viral Photos of 'Sand After a Lightning Strike'
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Here's The Real Truth About Those Viral Photos of 'Sand After a Lightning Strike'
Most people know that lightning strikes can destroy - but it turns out, they can also create.
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Astronomers Have Found a Black Hole Lurking Just 1,000 Light-Years From Earth
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Astronomers Have Found a Black Hole Lurking Just 1,000 Light-Years From Earth
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Astronomers Have Found a Black Hole Lurking Just 1,000 Light-Years From Earth
We can't see them, but they're out there - stellar-mass black holes, peppering the galaxy. And they're closing in. Astronomers have just identified the closest black hole to Earth they've spotted yet, at less than a third of the distance of the pre
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We Now Have More Evidence a Rushing River Existed on Mars Billions of Years Ago
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We Now Have More Evidence a Rushing River Existed on Mars Billions of Years Ago
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We Now Have More Evidence a Rushing River Existed on Mars Billions of Years Ago
An international team of scientists has found new evidence of rivers that flowed on the surface of Mars billions of years ago — a discovery that could give us new insights into the search for ancient life on the Red Planet.
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Scientists Find The First Animal That Doesn't Need Oxygen to Survive
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Scientists Find The First Animal That Doesn't Need Oxygen to Survive
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Scientists Find The First Animal That Doesn't Need Oxygen to Survive
Some truths about the Universe and our experience in it seem immutable. The sky is up. Gravity sucks. Nothing can travel faster than light. Multicellular life needs oxygen to live. Except we might need to rethink that last one.
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An Ancient Meteorite Is The First Chemical Evidence of Volcanic Convection on Mars
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An Ancient Meteorite Is The First Chemical Evidence of Volcanic Convection on Mars
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An Ancient Meteorite Is The First Chemical Evidence of Volcanic Convection on Mars
For many years, we thought Mars was dead. A dusty, dry, barren planet, where nothing moves but the howling wind. Recently, however, pieces of evidence have started to emerge, hinting that Mars is both volcanically and geologically active.
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Violent Impacts in The Moon's Ancient Past May Have Melted Vast Tracts of Its Surface
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Violent Impacts in The Moon's Ancient Past May Have Melted Vast Tracts of Its Surface
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Violent Impacts in The Moon's Ancient Past May Have Melted Vast Tracts of Its Surface
What ancient secrets does the pock-marked, crater-covered surface of the Moon hide? A new study suggests giant meteorite smashes played a major role in the process of the Moon's crust formation some 4 billion years ago.
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Our Behaviour in This Pandemic Has Seriously Confused AI Machine Learning Systems
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Our Behaviour in This Pandemic Has Seriously Confused AI Machine Learning Systems
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Our Behaviour in This Pandemic Has Seriously Confused AI Machine Learning Systems
The chaos and uncertainty surrounding the coronavirus pandemic have claimed an unlikely victim: the machine learning systems that are programmed to make sense of our online behavior.