The discovery of a neutron star emitting unusual radio signals is rewriting our understanding of these unique star systems. My…
Browsing: Space News
Recent decades have seen remarkable growth in astronomy on the African continent. Africa enjoys pristine dark skies and vast radio…
Voyager 1 is the farthest human-made object from Earth. After sweeping by Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, it is now…
Ask someone what they want their funeral to be like and they’ll probably say, “Why, what do you know?!” Once…
The United States Congress recently held a hearing into US government information pertaining to “unidentified aerial phenomena” (UAPs). The last investigation of…
Astronomers have revealed the first image of the black hole at the centre of our galaxy, the Milky Way. The image was…
Boeing’s Starliner crew capsule hasn’t had the greatest time of it. Its initial orbital test didn’t end particularly well, and…
Like Earth, planetary bodies such as the Moon, Mars, asteroids and comets contain substantial deposits of valuable resources. This has…
On May 12, 2022, astronomers on the Event Horizon Telescope team released an image of a black hole called Sagittarius A* that…
Satellites help run the internet and television and are central to the Global Positioning System. They enable modern weather forecasting, help…