Scientists have identified an unusually large exoplanet that orbits ab Centauri, a huge two-star system visible to the naked eye. With a combined weight of…
Mysterious Clouds May Offer New Clues About Dark Matter
Researchers are using powerful instruments, which detect gravitational waves billions of light-years away, to locate possible boson clouds – they would be a likely source…
Mars from the InSight Out
A hardworking seismometer has helped scientists reveal the interior structure of Mars in more detail than ever before. Credit: Mary Heinrichs, AGU With more than…
Mysterious Clouds May Offer More Clues About Dark Matter
The search for gravitational waves could help solve one of the other burning mysteries of the Universe: boson clouds and whether they are one of…
Huge black hole discovered in Milky Way satellite galaxy
Photo: Astronomers have discovered that Leo I (inset), a small satellite galaxy of the Milky Way (main image), has a black hole almost as massive…
ESO telescope uncovers closest pair of supermassive black holes yet
This image shows close-up (left) and wide-field (right) views of the two bright galactic nuclei that each host a supermassive black hole. Credit: ESO Using…
New theory suggests wormholes could be shortcuts through space-time
A new theory has attempted to explain whether wormholes, also known as the Einstein-Rosen bridge – a theoretical connection of two separate points in space-time…
They uncover the mystery of why Jupiter emits X-ray northern lights
Image credit: NASA/ESA Astronomers have watched Jupiter produce X-ray auroras for forty years, but they did not know how they were produced, only that they…
New explanation to the mystery of the hidden side of the Moon
Most of the planets in the Solar System have satellites. For example, Mars has two moons, Jupiter 79 and Neptune 14. Some are icy, others…
Astronomers Find 2 ‘Invisible’ Galaxies Behind Cosmic Dust
Astronomers have just discovered two galaxies that were previously invisible to us. Located 29 billion light-years away from the Earth — which, in galactic terms,…