Slow Gods review: Deep-space sci-fi novel is delightful, profound and not to be missed

It’s bad luck for those living on Adjumir, which is set to be obliterated DETLEV VAN…

We may never figure out where interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS came from

A deep image of 3I/ATLAS captured by the International Gemini Observatory in Chile, showing the coma…

Is the expansion of the universe slowing down?

The Tycho supernova remnant NASA/CXC/RIKEN & GSFC/T. Sato et al; DSS It’s widely been thought that…

Lumpy ‘caterpillar wormholes’ may connect entangled black holes

Sometimes wormholes are lumpy Shutterstock / Champhei What happens when two black holes become connected through…

Brightest black hole flare ever caused by huge star being ripped apart

A supermassive black hole in the process of shredding an enormous star Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC) Astronomers…

SpaceX’s Starlink and other satellites face growing threat from sun

Starlink satellite trails, as seen from space Don Pettit/NASA The number of satellites in orbit is…

We may have found a surprisingly nearby cluster of primordial stars

Artist’s impression of Population III stars as they would have appeared a 100 million years after…

The end of US support for the CMB-S4 telescope is devastating

The South Pole Telescope, which CMB-S4 would have used to measure variations in the temperature and…

Sorry, but interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS really is a comet, not aliens

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as seen by the Gemini South telescope in Chile International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Shadow the…

A tiny nearby galaxy is home to a shockingly enormous black hole

It is hard to believe, but Segue 1, a very faint dwarf galaxy, is at the…