Interstellar dust has been found in Antarctic ice samples. The discovery could provide a way of…
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Milky Way's black hole has got 75 times brighter and we don't know why
Astronomers were shocked to find the area around the supermassive black hole at the centre of…
Mysterious signals from space could teach us how dark energy works
Weird bursts of radio waves from space could be used to measure cosmic distances, which would…
We just found dozens of missing galaxies from the early universe
A group of 39 previously unseen galaxies could be the ancestors of the massive galaxies we…
UK's biggest moon exhibition captures centuries of lunar love
From Japanese painting of the harvest moon to Buzz Aldrin’s “Snoopy cap”, the UK’s biggest moon…
How the coolest, smallest stars could help us discover new exoplanets
Exoplanets are abundant near the galaxy’s smallest stars. Observing M dwarfs could teach us more about…
Enormous ‘cannonballs’ of plasma spotted hurtling around the sun
Huge blobs of hot plasma are flying around at high speeds on the sun, and they…
We could use Earth's atmosphere as a giant lens for a space telescope
A space telescope could use the whole Earth as a lens by capturing light deflected off…
Two planets orbiting a nearby star could have oceans and maybe life
Teegarden’s star, 12.5 light years away, is orbited by two planets, and even if they have…
We spotted a star moving so fast it will enter intergalactic space
We spotted a star zooming through the Milky Way at 1700 kilometres per second – so…