Could Mysterious Black Hole Burps Rewrite Physics?

About half of all New Zealanders can no longer see the Milky Way in winter due to light pollution from ever brighter cities ...

Astronomers in China have observed a pulsar that becomes partially eclipsed by an orbiting companion star every few hours. This type of observation is very rare and could shed new light on how binary ...

Planets, constellations, and meteor showers are only part of it. Stargazing in Wadi Rum is as much about feeling as it is ...

Southern astronomers get to see the Milky Way’s core overhead and enjoy many star clusters and nebulae that are hidden for us ...

A study published in Nature Astronomy suggests that there is a 50-50 chance of the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy ...

Black holes are invisible, yet they are among the brightest things in the universe. If a star wanders too close to a black hole, it gets torn apart in a fireworks show called a tidal disruption event.

Moving from the outer layer inward, the first layer is the corona — the outermost part of the sun’s atmosphere that is ...

The Drake Equation has been called the second most important equation in science. How many alien societies exist and are detectable? The Drake Equation is a step toward the answer. Frank Drake created ...

If our Solar System seems stable, it’s because our short lifespans make it seem that way. Earth revolves, night follows day, ...

There’s a place in southwestern Minnesota where the landscape suddenly shifts from familiar Midwestern farmland to something that looks like it was teleported from another region entirely. Blue Mounds ...

Using machine learning to analyse data from the Event Horizon Telescope, researchers found the black hole at the centre of ...