Now that the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration has released its picture of the Milky Way’s black…
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How scientists created the first image of the Milky Way’s black hole
For the first time, we have taken a photograph of the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole …
First picture of our galaxy’s supermassive black hole revealed
The Event Horizon Telescope collaboration has released the first picture of our galaxy’s supermassive black hole,…
Mars was wet more recently than we thought, according to Chinese rover
There may have been liquid water on Mars much more recently than we thought, according to…
Aliens could say hello by arranging planets in prime number pattern
A sufficiently advanced alien civilisation would be able to arrange the orbits of the planets in…
Chinese rover finds lunar soil could make oxygen and fuel on the moon
Lunar soil collected by the Chang’e 5 rover has been analysed, revealing it could be used…
Search starlight to help astronomers discover new exoplanets
Comb through observations from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite to help find new planets, says Layal…
Send thousands of people to orbit, says space tourist Jared Isaacman
Billionaire who recently flew to orbit says that we should have big ambitions for the near…
Watch Rocket Lab catch a falling rocket with a helicopter
US company Rocket Lab achieved a historic first by catching a rocket falling back to Earth…
Planet-sized telescopes could be possible using quantum technique
Huge networks of interconnected telescopes may run into image-sharpening problems that classical physics can’t handle. Accounting…