NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is hurtling out of the solar system at an incredible speed. It…
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Pluto and the largest moon of Neptune might be siblings
Triton, left, and Pluto (not shown to scale) may be long-lost siblings JPL/NASA//Johns Hopkins University Applied…
Einstein’s theory was wrong about black holes made out of light
Light cannot condense enough to create a black hole Vadim Sadovski/Shutterstock It seems it is not…
Spellbinding shots capture the Milky Way in all its glory
2024 MILKY WAY PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR/TOM RAE In the right place at the right time,…
JWST spotted an incredible number of supernovae in the early universe
Many of the circled objects represent previously unknown supernovae NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, JADES Collaboration Astronomers…
Odd black holes smaller than protons may have once littered the cosmos
Colour-charged black holes may have formed in the early universe betibup33/Shutterstock The universe may have once…
What would a wormhole look like if we ever found one?
Could we find a wormhole? ESO/L. Calçada The following is an extract from our monthly Launchpad…
We could detect a malfunctioning warp drive on an alien starship
A failing warp drive could release gravitational waves Everett Collection Inc / Alamy There is no…
How many moons and moonmoons could we cram into Earth’s orbit?
Dead Planets Society is a podcast that takes outlandish ideas about how to tinker with…
The first stars in the universe could have formed surprisingly early
An image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope showing thousands of extremely distant galaxies NASA,…