Immortal stars could live forever by ‘eating’ dark matter

At the centre of the Milky Way, stars look younger than they should NASA, Caltech, Susan…

Adam Roberts’s Lake of Darkness is a quest to understand utopia itself

In his sci-fi novel Lake of Darkness, Adam Roberts set out to write a utopia, a…

Little red dot galaxies have now been found in our local universe

J1025+1402, one of the three little red dot galaxies seen up to 2.5 billion light years…

Otherworldly space images from a major photography competition

Encounter Within One Second © Zhang Yanguang The International Space Station (ISS) scrolling across the sun,…

Simple device can produce water, oxygen and fuel from lunar soil

A photo of the lunar surface taken by China’s Chang’e 5 lander, which collected samples in…

Water might be even more important for alien life than we thought

Alien worlds found in the “habitable zone” of their star may still not be right for…

LIGO has spotted the most massive black hole collision ever detected

Illustration of merging of black holes Shutterstock / Jurik Peter A record-breaking black hole smash-up just…

We may have finally solved an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray puzzle

An artistic rendering based on a real image of the IceCube neutrino detector at the South…

Astronomers found a completely new type of plasma wave near Jupiter

The plasma near Jupiter’s poles is capable of unusual behaviour NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MS​SS; Oleksuik © CC NC SA…

The cosmos is vast, so how do we measure it?

An estimated 500,000 stars shine in this portion of the Milky Way galaxy NASA, ESA, CSA,…