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A strange, dark object is warping the Universe. Scientists still don???t know what it is
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…...
Are we listening for aliens on the wrong frequency? Astronomers just opened a new frontier on a channel we rarely check
3+ week, 5+ day ago (662+ words) Study says we may could have missed signals by listening to the wrong frequency Have we been missing radio communication signals from intelligent alien civilisations because we've been listening in on the wrong frequency? A group of astronomers say that…...
Webb Telescope has used a spacetime-warping gravity trick to find new stars never seen before
2+ week, 5+ day ago (1004+ words) The James Webb Space Telescope used gravitational lensing to make an incredible discovery in the distant Universe The sheer mass of enormous cosmic objects warps spacetime and can even magnify light from distant objects, enabling astronomers to see them more…...
Scientists have found the fastest star in our Galaxy. And it could tell them how fast our central black hole is spinning
3+ week, 1+ day ago (548+ words) Scientists have discovered the fastest known star in our Galaxy, named S301, which skims close to our central supermassive black hole Astronomers have found the fastest known star in our home Galaxy, the Milky Way. The star, named S301, was discovered hurtling…...
We thought the Universe was the same everywhere. But it turns out it could be much stranger than we'd imagined
2+ day, 10+ hour ago (625+ words) We assume the Universe looks broadly the same no matter where you are or which way you look. A study is throwing that assumption into doubt. When scientists say that the Universe is isotropic, it means that on the largest…...
These are the closest black holes to Earth??? and there could be many more. Should we be worried?
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…...
"We had a visitor from a distant corner of our Galaxy" Scientist reveals why interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was so special??? and why we'll find many more very soon
4+ day, 6+ hour ago (1892+ words) Interview with astronomer Cyrielle Opitom who co-led a study of comet 3I/ATLAS using the Very Large Telescope Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is one of the biggest stories in space science in recent years. From the moment of its discovery in July…...
Our Galaxy swallowed another galaxy shortly after the Big Bang. And scientists just found the smoking gun
3+ week, 2+ day ago (580+ words) The discovery of the Low-energy-Kraken-Heracles merger 11.8 billion years ago reveals how our young Galaxy was shaped Our home Galaxy the Milky Way wasn't always been a majestic spiral galaxy containing of hundreds of billions of stars and dark matter. Instead,…...
This creepy 'statue' that looks like a robed figure on Mars gives us the chills. Here's what's really going on
5+ day, 4+ hour ago (1148+ words) The 'robed statue of a female figure' on Mars was spotted by the Spirit rover on the Red Planet in 2007 Of all the strange, creepy visions captured throughout humanity's exploration of the Universe, one of the most hair-raising has to…...
See the crescent Moon pass in front of the beautiful Beehive star cluster, 8 September 2026
1+ week, 3+ day ago (359+ words) How to see the lunar occultation of the Beehive Cluster, M44 in September 2026 The Moon will occult the northern part of the Beehive Cluster, M44, in the constellation of Cancer this month. Although perhaps rather than a lunar occultation, this should be…...