Black holes are dense astronomical objects with gravity so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape. Anything that crosses the…
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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…
Humans are naturally afraid of the dark. We sometimes imagine monsters under the bed and walk faster down unlit streets…
How many intelligent civilisations should there be in our galaxy right now? In 1961, the US astrophysicist Frank Drake, who…
Nothing lasts forever, including the stars in our night sky. One of the brighter and more notable stars in our…
The European Space Agency’s (Esa) Gaia mission has just released new data. The Gaia satellite was launched in 2013, with the aim…