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This year is set to be an important one for astronomy, cosmology and physics as researchers across these fields seek to investigate deeper into the Universe and the physics that governs it than ever before.
Astronomers have discovered a galaxy that is ejecting a massive amout of gas. The outburst could represent the end of star formation in ID2299 and its figurative death.
The discovery of primordial black holes could answer a multitude of lingering questions such as the nature of dark matter, and how heavy elements are synthesised in addition to hiding entire bubble universes.
Despite the global pandemic that has brought much of the world to a grinding halt, space scientists have continued to push the boundaries of our knowledge throughout 2020.
Astronomers have discovered an exotic binary system consisting of two brown dwarfs orbiting each other.
The melting of ice beneath the surface of Mars could have made its deep regions the most habitable.
For billions of years, Mars has had quite the leak.
A new study highlights the importance of solar flares and space weather in reducing the habitability of exoplanets.
Astronomers have discovered a free-floating planet, not associated with any parent star wandering our galaxy.
NASA has announced that water is more common on the Moon than previously believed, with traces now discovered at its sunlit Lunar South Pole. This is an area that has been traditionally considered free of water.
This could solve the mystery of tidal disruption events or ‘spaghettification.’
Astronomers have discovered a tremendous cosmic web in the early Universe. Trapped within its threads, six galaxies feeding gas to a central supermassive black hole.
This has been a tremendous month for discoveries on the inner planets.
We've never seen anything like this before.
Astronomers have captured stellar winds emitted by aging stars in unprecedented detail.
Small-scale concentrations of dark matter produce lensing effects that are 10 times stronger than expected, a new study found.
They killed the dinosaurs but might have also kicked off life as we know it.
This spectacular three-star system is radically different than our solar system.
The black hole is the first object of its kind with a mass above 100 solar masses but below a million solar masses to be discovered.
Spotting space debris during the day could help save satellites from costly collisions.
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning close-up image of comet NEOWISE, which recently captured the public’s imagination becoming visible in the night sky.
We might have to revise the commonly accepted image of planets orbiting a parent star.
Weather-related phenomenons are taking a toll on the telescope
The discovery of a calm galaxy so early in the Universe’s history calls into question our theories of how galaxies form.
Better get your cold weather gear if you are planning to go there
Supermassive black holes sat at the centre of active galaxies could have company. Binary pairs of these titanic cosmic objects could merge to form a more monstrous black hole. Observational methods are finally becoming sensitive enough to spot such an event.
The glow comes from oxygen atoms and it was long predicted, but never observed before
New findings from NASA’s Cassini space probe challenge our understanding of tidal forces.
Astronomers have used mysterious Fast Radio Bursts from distant galaxies to solve a lingering cosmological problem-- locating the Universe’s missing baryonic matter , long predicted to exist, but never before detected.
A cliff face on mars is telling us of its watery past.
It has an atmosphere much more complex than initially thought.
This process has been noted on other planets, but not Neptune until now.
The results from New Horizon's New Year's Day Flyby of Kuiper Belt Object Arrokoth are in, and it could just change how we think about planet formation.
The study of the Kuiper Belt body Arrokoth promises to change how we believe the building blocks of planets form. Thus revealing more about how planets such as the Earth are born.
New research has uncovered the presence of at least thirteen ‘wandering’ black holes in dwarf galaxies. Something, that until recently was not believed possible.
The dust grains were formed 5 to 7 billion years ago.
A rare form of an iron-carbide mineral was found by researchers
The ESA’s CHEOPS telescope has finally launched kick-starting the next phase in exoplanet investigations.
As the Hans Sigrist Prize is claimed by Ignas Snellen for groundbreaking exoplanet research, the message is clear--the search for other worlds is heating up.
Black holes and neutron stars are the densest and most mysterious objects in the universe, and researchers may have figured out the source of the light they emit.
This is one of the most important findings of the decade.
Astronomers have identified a runaway star travelling at an incredible 6 million kilometres per hour, ejected by the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy 5 million years ago.
New research has provided some surprising answers regarding the origins of globular clusters the oldest visible objects in the Universe — some of them may not be so ancient at all.
Small but significant.
It's only the second time that astronomers have detected an interstellar visitor.
Mission scientists said it is "gel-like" and has an "unusual color."
Clues pointing towards a volcanically active exomoon hidden outside our solar system — a violent and dangerous world — have been discovered by astronomers.
The galaxy's elderly unexpectedly move faster than stellar younglings.
Worlds with a fluorescent glow may indicate signs of alien life.
Baby planet, doo doo doo doo doo doo...
