This striking view of the central parts of the Milky Way has been obtained using the VISTA survey telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. It’s part of a huge picture (108,200 x 81,500 pixels) which…
Scroll down for video China put world’s largest and most sensitive radio telescope into formal operation on Saturday. The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) will provide astronomers around the globe with a powerful tool…
Up until now, NASA has never paid too much attention to Uranus – but now the space agency wants to take a good, long look. And one of the things it might be investigating is…
People worldwide are already reporting unidentified lights in the sky as Starlink gets off the ground. It could be just the beginning. Last year saw a big increase in a certain kind of UFO spotting,…
Fluff surrounds the solid interiors of each of the three planets in the Kepler 51 star system. Each of these planets was discovered to have masses “only a few times larger than Earth’s” with radii…
The oft-delayed space observatory will be worth the wait. Paul M. Sutter is an astrophysicist at The Ohio State University, host of Ask a Spaceman and Space Radio, and author of “Your Place in the Universe.” Sutter contributed this article…
The nighttime events are among initial results from the InSight lander, which also found hints that the red planet may host a global reservoir of liquid water deep below the surface. At midnight on Mars,…
A UFO hunter who scours images of space looking for evidence of aliens says he has found a “pyramid-like structure” on the surface of the moon. So-called UFO anomaly hunter Mark Sawalha says he found the pyramid…
First known interstellar comet also turns out to be one of the fastest known Nasa has released never-before-seen images of 2I/Borisov, only the second known object to have visited our solar system from elsewhere. The image shows…
(Image credit: Science Photo Library/Getty) In the beginning, there was nothing. Then, around 13.7 billion years ago, the universe formed. We still don’t know the exact conditions under which this happened, and whether there was a…
Something strange is sailing toward us. Something small and cold and extraordinarily fast. No one knows where it came from, or where it is going. But it’s not from around here. This is an interstellar…
The European Space Agency has shared an incredible composite image showing a 50-mile wide crater on Mars that is filled with water ice all year long. Budding future colonists hoping for a white Christmas on…
The cracks, if they exist, are old, remnants of a time shortly after the Big Bang. There might be cracks in space-time, but humanity’s telescopes can’t see them. The cracks, if they exist, are old…