Hubble Just Captured a Breathtaking New Image of Saturn, And It Barely Looks Real
Hubble has captured a new image of Saturn that makes you wonder if it’s even real. The image is so crisp it makes it look like Saturn is just floating…
New Test to Measure The Expansion of Our Universe Provides Even More Puzzling Results
Advances in astronomical observation over the past century have allowed scientists to construct a remarkably successful model of how the cosmos works. It makes sense – the better we can…
Astronomers Have Heard The ‘Ringing’ of a Newborn Black Hole For The First Time Ever
When you strike a bell with a hammer, it rings for some time after, as the vibrating metal continues to resonate. And, as it turns out, when you strike a…
Astronomers Discover Giant Radio Bubbles Expanding From The Heart of The Milky Way
The region at the centre of our galaxy is still full of mysteries, but astronomers have just found a clue to its past: Huge, radio-emitting bubbles, extending 700 light-years either…
Another Mysterious Object From Interstellar Space May Have Entered Our Solar System
Astronomers may have spotted the second object ever to visit our Solar System from another star system. The object may even fly near Mars later this year, though it’s still…
Water Detected in Atmosphere of Rocky Habitable Zone Exoplanet For First Time
In the atmosphere of an exoplanet just 111 light-years away, astronomers have just made a highly exciting discovery: they’ve detected water. As much as 50 percent of the atmosphere of…
New Evidence Hints All Comets in The Solar System May Come From The Same Place
All the comets in our Solar System may share the same origin story – and it could help explain how life on Earth came to exist. A team of American…
Unusual Lakes Detected on Titan Could Be The Ancient Scars of Giant Explosions
Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, might have a more violent past than astronomers realised. A new study suggests that the liquid methane lakes that dot Titan’s surface may have formed when…
Giant Radio Telescope in China Just Detected Repeating Signals From Across Space
Remember the spectacle of that gigantic telescope unveiled in a mountain-ringed valley in China just a few years ago? Well, the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) has now picked…
The Strange Magnetic Poles on Mercury May Have More in Common With Earth’s Than We Realised
Earth’s magnetic poles drift over time. This is something that every airplane pilot or navigator knows. They have to account for it when they plan their flights. They drift so…
Aliens May Have Explored The Galaxy And Visited Earth Already, Scientists Say
The Milky Way could be teeming with interstellar alien civilizations, according to a new study. We just don’t know about it because they haven’t paid us a visit in 10…