Is our galaxy’s black hole actually made of dark matter?
An image of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* in polarised light,…
NASA is performing an unprecedented medical evacuation from the ISS
The four crew members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission to the International…
Strange lemon-shaped exoplanet defies the rules of planet formation
An artist’s impression of PSR J2322-2650bNASA, ESA, CSA, Ralf Crawford (STScI) Astronomers…
Astronomers may have glimpsed evidence of the biggest stars ever seen
Artist’s impression of a field of Population III stars 100 million years…
James Watson, co-discoverer of DNA’s double helix, has died aged 97
Molecular biologist James Watson helped reveal DNA’s hidden shapeEverett Collection Historical /…
Enceladus’s ocean may be even better for life than we realised
Plumes of ice particles, water vapour and organic molecules spray from Enceladus’s…
We may have found a surprisingly nearby cluster of primordial stars
Artist’s impression of Population III stars as they would have appeared a…
A distant comet is forming new rings while we watch in real time
Illustration of Chiron’s ringsDan Durda For the first time, astronomers are watching…
The centre of our galaxy may be teeming with dark matter particles
Gamma rays show up in surprisingly high concentrations in the centre of…
Failed Soviet probe will soon crash to Earth – and we don’t know where
A model of Kosmos 482, which was originally set to go to…
