Kamo‘oalewa, an object that orbits the sun along with Earth, is unexpectedly red, leading researchers to…
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Sterile neutrinos could explain dark matter – if we can find them
There are good reasons to think that neutrinos have a shy cousin that could explain dark…
Cosmogramma review: An eclectic mix of sci-fi and cosmic horror tales
An exciting collection of short stories by Courttia Newland covers a lot of interesting ground, finds…
How you can get involved with the hunt for gravitational waves
In the search for high-energy astronomical events like black holes colliding, the data often has glitches.…
Marsquakes happen more often during the planet’s northern summer
The NASA Insight lander has measured the frequency of shallow marsquakes and found they are more…
A strange barrier is keeping cosmic rays out of the Milky Way’s centre
The very centre of the Milky Way has an unexpectedly low density of cosmic rays compared…
Lost in Space-Time newsletter: Will a twisted universe save cosmology?
A forgotten idea of Albert Einstein’s might be the saviour of cosmology, plus the great man’s…
Earth may have grown around a rock from an alien star system
Interstellar objects like ‘Oumuamua might pass through our solar system in such high numbers that one…
Pluto's dark side revealed by moonlight in pictures from New Horizons
After NASA’s New Horizons mission flew past Pluto in 2015, it turned around and took pictures…
US astronomers plan $11 billion telescope to picture another Earth
A massive report on priorities for the next decade of US astronomy recommends building a telescope…