A photo of Uranus taken by Voyager 2 in 1986 (edited to show its moon and rings).NASA/JPL-Caltech Uranus is one of the solar system’s most mysterious planets. Scientists had long believed that the “ice giant” world…
A partial lunar eclipse could be visible from the UK on Tuesday, 50 years to the day since the US mission to put men on the Moon lifted off. Up to 60% of the Moon’s…
Psyche’s iron alone is thought to be worth a mind-boggling £8,000 quadrillion A giant asteroid known as 16 Psyche contains enough precious heavy metals to make everyone on Earth a billionaire. The asteroid, which is…
IN 1981, MANY of the world’s leading cosmologists gathered at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, a vestige of the coupled lineages of science and theology located in an elegant villa in the gardens of the Vatican.…
This August, the Andromeda galaxy will be even bigger than the moon in our sky! The last time this cosmic event occurred was during the era of the dinosaurs… Share this information as much as…
NASA’s Juno spacecraft recently spotted a possible new volcano at the south pole of Jupiter’s most lava-licious moon, Io. But this volcanically active moon is not alone in the solar system, where sizzling-hot rocks explode and ooze…
In 2016, Russian billionaire Yuri Milner launched Breakthrough Initiatives, a massive non-profit organization dedicated to the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence (SETI). A key part of their efforts to find evidence of intelligent life is Breakthrough Listen,…
Is anybody home? Astronomers have pinpointed two planets orbiting a nearby star that meet pretty much every requirement for supporting life. They’re almost exactly the same mass as the Earth, they are billions of years…
In Christopher Nolan’s epic 2014 science fiction film Interstellar, a rogue splinter group of scientists constituting the collapsed remnants of NASA hatch a plan to save Earth from environmental collapse by searching for potentially habitable planets…
For 17 years, astronomers at a well-known Australian radio telescope known as “The Dish” had not been able to figure out the source of a strange, vexing interference. Now they’ve solved the mystery, and the culprit was…
AN incredible image of what appears to be a cross at the centre of the galaxy has sparked theories it’s the gateway to heaven. The image was first released by the space agency in June…
From deep space to our cosmic backyard, Hubble has seen it all. With over a million observations under its belt and 700,000 iconic pictures to its name, the Hubble is objectively one of the greatest science success stories of…
Event Horizon Telescope project holding news conference live at 9 a.m. ET Scientists are expected to unveil today the first-ever photograph of a black hole, a breakthrough in astrophysics providing insight into celestial monsters with gravitational…