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, 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…...

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…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (626+ words) The discovery might pave the way for answering one of the biggest unresolved questions about our universe Scientists may have found the most significant indication of dark matter ever. An intriguing particle interaction – found during a search for dark matter,…...

3+ week, 10+ hour ago   (494+ words) Eclipses occur in pairs because the sun, moon, and Earth align so precisely that one masks the other. The moon is next in line to pull a vanishing act. Having missed out on this month’s total solar eclipse, skywatchers across…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (400+ words) Scientists have discovered an enormous 10-sided wave pattern in the icy ammonia clouds over Saturn’s south pole. The spinning, meandering decagon appears to be even bigger and more unstable than the hexagon of clouds around Saturn’s north pole that was…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (387+ words) Astronomers have found the fastest star in our galaxy – and is close to its black hole that it can feel its rotation. It comes closer to that black hole than any other star seen before. As such, scientists believe it…...

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…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (348+ words) New research suggests that we might have missed something very important in our understanding of how the Moon formed. Despite its importance and relative proximity, scientists are still not sure how the Moon actually formed in the first place. But…...