Einstein was right about the way matter plunges into black holes

We’ve seen the waterfall of matter plunging into a black hole Buradaki / Alamy Stock Photo…

Gravitational waves: We are about to hear echoes in the fabric of space for the first time

Did  you hear the one about the star that died twice? In 2014, astronomers saw the…

How could we give boring blobby galaxies a new, exciting shape?

Dead Planets Society is a podcast that takes outlandish ideas about how to tinker with the…

Mystery of ‘impossible’ star resolved by three-body solution

A white dwarf acts as a lens for the light of the star behind it NASA/JPL-Caltech…

How to see tonight’s northern lights – the strongest in 20 years

People across the UK and US may glimpse a special light show tonight Marc Hilton/iStockphoto/Getty Images…

Dozens of stars show signs of Dyson spheres built by advanced alien civilisations

Dyson spheres could capture the energy from a star dotted zebra/Alamy Two surveys of millions of…

Invisible ‘dark radiation’ may explain a big problem with dark energy

A slice through the largest 3D map of our universe to date laire Lamman/DESI collaboration There…

Mars is blasting plasma out of its atmosphere into space

The Red Planet launches large bursts of plasma into space from its upper atmosphere, much like…

Has the biggest problem in cosmology finally been solved?

A spiral galaxy in the constellation of Ursa Major NASA, ESA, A. Riess (STScI/JHU) The following…

Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft launch delayed due to rocket fault

Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft approaching the International Space Station in 2022 NASA Boeing’s Starliner capsule will have…