Astrophysicists have discovered an Earth-like planet, capable of supporting life as we know it, orbiting the nearest star to our Solar system. The planet, dubbed “Proxima ...
August 27, 2016 at 12:00 pm by Ashley Allen
The world’s biggest radio telescope has been built in China, with the ultimate aim to find extraterrestrial civilisations, the country’s Xinhua state media outlet reports. ...
July 4, 2016 at 6:00 pm by Ashley Allen
Eminent astrophysicist Professor Stephen Hawking has joined forces with science investor and philanthropist Yuri Milner to launch a revolutionary $100m “moonshot” which ...
April 13, 2016 at 1:00 am by Ashley Allen
Black holes are incredibly mysterious and fascinating, don’t you agree? Some of them are incredibly large, so large in fact that we can’t really wrap our minds ...
April 10, 2016 at 5:00 pm by Cernescu Andrei
Astronomy circles are all abuzz over speculation that a potential ninth planet – a Jupiter-sized super-planet –has been discovered in our solar system, with some sources ...
April 8, 2016 at 9:40 pm by Ashley Allen
Astrophysicists have discovered a distant planet that has not one, not two, but three suns in its sky. While the Jupiter-sized world, named KELT-4Ab, orbits a single star ...
April 4, 2016 at 9:40 pm by Ashley Allen
NASA and the National Science Foundation (NSF) have recently been constructing a team of astronomers as part of a project to construct a powerful new exoplanet-hunting tool. ...
March 31, 2016 at 5:30 pm by Alexander Neil
For the first time ever, astronomers have recorded the moment at which a star started to explode – known as the “shock breakout” – within the optical wavelength of ...
March 22, 2016 at 7:30 pm by Ashley Allen
The dwarf planet on the edge of our Solar System, Pluto, is one of the most enigmatic and unknown to us. Now, a newly published report based on data taken by the New Horizons ...
March 18, 2016 at 1:00 pm by Alexander Neil
Last year, we told you that a series of strange signals from the depths of space had been detected by the Parkes radio telescope in New South Wales, Australia. The detection ...
March 3, 2016 at 4:06 pm by Ashley Allen
Earlier this month, the discovery of the gravitational waves shook the scientific community as it confirmed one of Einstein’s theories that it took us a century to ...
February 26, 2016 at 10:30 am by Alexander Neil
Back in October, we brought you the story of a curious star which may be displaying evidence of an alien presence. The star, KIC8462852, positioned between the constellations ...
January 18, 2016 at 5:00 pm by Ashley Allen
Modern technology has allowed us all to see the beauty of our own solar system and gaze in its wonder. The advent of ultra-high resolution video means it’s now possible ...
November 2, 2015 at 11:00 pm by John Williamson
There is a star, positioned between the constellations of Cygnus and Lyra, which has astronomers in a tizz. When viewed through the Kepler Space Telescope, this particular ...
October 15, 2015 at 7:30 pm by Ashley Allen
NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope (above) has discovered an Earth-like planet within our galaxy. The planet, given the designation Kepler-452b, is thought to be older and larger ...
July 23, 2015 at 6:39 pm by Ashley Allen
