3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (962+ words) Astronomers have found an enormous proto-supercluster 5,000 times bigger than our Galaxy Astronomers have peered back into the early Universe to a time shortly after the Big Bang and discovered an enormous, gargantuan cosmic structure taking shape. Located in a region…...

6+ day, 21+ hour ago   (317+ words) Study examines whether microbes might survive the journey between Earth and Venus A study suggests that microscopic life blasted off Earth by asteroid impacts could have reached Venus’s atmosphere over billions of years – raising the possibility that any life in…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (24+ words) We’ll soon see the flash when two alien planets collide – and it'll dramatically transform our understanding of the Universe BBC Sky at Night Magazine...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (338+ words) The dark matter hunt is testing the limits of known physics. What happens if it fails? One of the biggest mysteries in the Universe is that all the stars, galaxies, gas clouds and planets we can see – all the 'regular…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (502+ words) Astronomers have found a small, dark object that's so impossible to see, it can only be detected by the way its gravity distorts space. It's the lowest-mass dark object ever found in the Universe, and was discovered by using a…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (912+ words) A mile underground, the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment is hunting for dark matter Deep beneath the Black Hills of South Dakota in the US, locked inside a cavern nearly a mile underground, an extraordinary experiment is hunting for dark matter. And it…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (1382+ words) There are a staggering number of planets wandering the Galaxy, not tied to any star Round and round Earth goes, year after year, bound by gravity to our Sun. Yet imagine I were to tell you that Earth is in…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (244+ words) Ultra-rare meteorite is a fragment from a protoplanet possibly as big as Mars A rare meteorite discovered in the Sahara Desert has provided the first definitive evidence for a giant protoplanet that formed early in the Solar System’s history before…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (720+ words) GJ 523b is a mega Earth exoplanet located 87 lightyears from Earth that has remained a dense, rocky world despite being so enormous. When astronomers peer into space to observe planets orbiting stars beyond our Solar System – known as exoplanets – there are…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (1370+ words) The closest black holes to Earth, how we know they're there and how astronomers go about searching for black holes The closest confirmed black hole to our Solar System lies roughly 1,560 lightyears away. It belongs to a binary system known…...