Most of the universe is made up of dark energy, a mysterious force that drives the accelerating expansion of the universe. The next largest ingredient is dark matter, which only interacts with the rest of…
Space Mysteries: If the universe is 13.8 billion years old, how can a star be more than 14 billion years old? or more than 100 years, astronomers have been observing a curious star located some…
It turned night into day. What appears to be a dazzling meteor lit up the sky over northeast China on Friday (Oct. 11), appearing as a brilliant fireball in surveillance videos of the event. …
Don’t mind me, just passing through. Another day, another pyramid-size space rock barreling past Earth. This time, the fast-moving visitor’s name is 2019 SX5, and it’s expected to pay our cosmic neighborhood a visit tonight…
Astronomers captured the first image of a black hole and and scientists are calling it ‘a monster’. It measures 40 billion km across and three million times the size of the earth. We’re no experts but apparently it…
There seems to be an imbalance in our galaxy. Astronomers have discovered a strange surplus of gas in the Milky Way galaxy. Using 10 years of data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, the team of astronomers…
Chilean officials are investigating a curious collection of burning objects that fell onto parts of the country last week. Goodness gracious! Great balls of fire rained from the sky in Chile last week, and officials…
The center of the Milky Way exploded 3.5 million years ago —and may explode again very soon. At the center of our galaxy is a supermassive black hole which, apparently, likes to blow bubbles. Ballooning…
THE SUPERMASSIVE black hole at the centre of the Milky Way exploded 3.5million years ago, according to astronomers. This is considered to be ‘astonishingly recent’ in galactic terms and is changing what scientists thought they…
Remember when you were a kid and you used to stare up into the clouds and pick out shapes and animals? Well Chris Keegan has taken that timeless exercise to whole new level by applying it to…
A study of the small galaxies swallowed by our nearest large galactic neighbor has revealed something of how galaxies grow. In the process, it has hinted at something that, if true, would change the way…
The possibility of life on the other planets in the Solar System has always been deliberated by astronomers and scientists in an effort to search for water on these entities. However, this might not be…
Where galaxies live in the universe and the way they interact with their surroundings, i.e. the intergalactic medium around them, mainly influences their ability to produce new stars. The ambiguity of this interaction is precisely…