A supermoon may sound exciting, but it’s a modest coincidence. As the Moon orbits Earth, its distance from us varies from 357,000…
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Neutron stars are some of the most extreme objects in the universe. Formed from the collapsed cores of supergiant stars,…
We breathe oxygen and nitrogen gas in our atmosphere every day, but did you know that these gases also float…
How fast can a neutron star drive powerful jets into space? The answer, it turns out, is about one-third the…
Black holes are dense astronomical objects with gravity so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape. Anything that crosses the…
We have identified the coldest star ever found to produce radio waves – a brown dwarf too small to be…
The bright, red star Betelgeuse in the constellation Orion has shown some unexpected behaviour. In late 2019 and 2020 it became fainter…
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta isn’t the be-all-or-end-all content platform it hoped it would be by now. Creators are flying this way…
Hot on the heels of the disappointing Green Comet, astronomers have just discovered a new comet with the potential to be…
NASA recently announced the discovery of a new, Earth-sized planet in the habitable zone of a nearby star called TOI-700. We are two of the…