2+ week, 1+ day ago   (924+ words) Nasa has named its latest flagship space telescope after the American scientist Nancy Grace Roman. Roman’s contributions to astrophysics should have made her famous, yet many people will never have heard of her. For decades, astronomers have been spoiled with…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (552+ words) The Milky Way is known to have been involved in two other massive galactic mergers Our Milky Way galaxy underwent a complicated and violent process to grow to its current size, new research has shown. The galaxy – the home of…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (181+ words) The Independent Milky Way swallowed dwarf galaxy 11.8 billion years ago in ancient cosmic collision - Astrophysicists led by Davide Massari at Italy's National Institute for Astrophysics have discovered that the Milky Waydevoured a dwarf galaxy named Low-energy-Kraken-Heracles roughly 11.8 billion years ago…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (882+ words) It’s not easy to pick out the patterns that the ancient Greeks drew in this maze of obscure stars, Nigel Henbest writes, but there’s one shape you can’t miss With the equinox coming up on 23 September, this month we change…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (791+ words) I went to Sitges to recover from a week of partying. Instead, I found myself surrounded by strangers as the world went dark – and discovered that eight seconds can put everything else into perspective, says Gary Nunn I saw a…...

4+ week, 16+ hour ago   (617+ words) The physicists made an unexpected breakthrough Medieval alchemists dreamed of transmuting lead into gold. Today, we know that lead and gold are different elements, and no amount of chemistry can turn one into the other. But our modern knowledge tells…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (480+ words) Far away galaxies, so distant that the light reaching us is from the early universe, could in fact have many more small stars in than we expected, according to a new study. That suggests they might be far more massive…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (265+ words) An influx of thousands of new satellites entering Earth's orbit threatens to severely hamper astronomers' ability to study the universe, research from the European Southern Observatory suggests. "Each of these satellites, when it crosses a telescope's field of view, leaves…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (279+ words) A telescope has spied the fastest known star in our galaxy, racing around the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. The star is zipping around the black hole, reaching speeds of about 15,534 miles per second (25,000 kilometers…...