Can there be a more habitable planet than Earth? Well, yeah and we’ve already found it
Could there be a world even more suitable for life than ours, given the assumption that everything we know always…
Astrophysics
Uranus Is Leaking Gas Into Space Every 17 Hours
Uranus is an odd planet with a funny name. Scientists have found that it spins on an unusual axis, which…
Newly Discovered ‘Mini’ Supermassive Black Hole Is Among The Smallest Ever Found
Amongst the most perplexing are supermassive black holes, millions to billions of times the mass of our Sun. Since black…
Ironing out the interiors of exoplanets
The discovery of more than 4,500 extra-solar planets has created a need for modelling their interior structure and dynamics. As…
THE COLLISION BETWEEN THE ANDROMEDA GALAXY AND THE MILKY WAY.
Every one of you in your life will surely have had a chance to admire a picture of the Andromeda…
S5-HVS1: Fastest Star Ejected by Milky Way’s Black Hole
During the period when our ancient ancestors were evolving learning to walk use their hands and create basic tools remarkable…
PHOTOGRAPHING EXTRASOLAR PLANETS
Amongst all the existing techniques for discovering exoplanets, the most immediate and understandable is to photograph them directly. In theory…
A Giant Galaxy Orbiting Our Own Just Appeared Out of Nowhere
Astronomers watching the sky recently got a big surprise. They discovered a big galaxy in an undiscovered region of our…
M27: THE FIRST PLANETARY NEBULA DISCOVERED
The definition of “planetary nebula” may lead us in error: these objects have nothing to do with the planets of…
Astronomers have recorded the largest shock wave in the universe – it is 60 times larger than the Milky Way
Astronomers managed to get a clear picture of the universe’s largest shock wave in the radio range. The wave, whose…