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The first black hole ever photographed gets a glam up — it's now glittering
So you like TNW? Then join our upcoming online event, TNW2020 on October 1 & 2, you don’t want to miss it. The ...
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Phosphorus surrounding distant stars could be a sign of life-friendly worlds
Far from our solar system, phosphorus surrounding distant stars could be a telltale sign of worlds friendly to extraterrestrial ...
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Scientists believe they’ve found the origins of ‘space gold’
So you like TNW? Then join our upcoming online event, TNW2020, you don’t want to miss it. Neutron star collisions ...
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Something's strange about this 'normal' looking ancient galaxy
An ancient galaxy called SPT0418–47 has been found near the edge of the observable Universe. This family of stars looks ...
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This asteroid is shedding rocks like crazy — astronomers love it
So you like TNW? Then join our upcoming online event, TNW2020, you don’t want to miss it. The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft recently ...
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Our understanding of dark matter just became even more warped — literally
One mystery of dark matter is that it makes up the vast majority of all the matter in the Universe, yet we know surprisingly ...
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The Moon's surface is rusting — and Earth may be to blame
Dust on the Moon discovered by the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft orbiting our planetary companion suggests complex interactions ...
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Close-up shots of the Sun reveal popcorn-like sunspots
Creepy sunspots seen by astronomers at the GREGOR telescope in Europe reveal our parent star in unprecedented detail. The ...
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Astronomers witnessed the birth of the first intermediate black hole
An international team of astronomers witnessed the birth of the first intermediate-mass black hole ever detected. On May ...
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Space telescopes are great — so why do we still build ground-based ones?
At the dawn of the 17th Century, Galileo Galilei began the first major search of the night sky (as well as the Sun!) ...
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Alien-human hybrids are unlikely but not impossible, scientists say
Human-alien hybrids fill science fiction stories, and the most famous of these is Mr. Spock from Star Trek — the logical ...
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New study suggests we all might be children of alien organisms
Panspermia means “seeds everywhere,” and the concept represents the idea that life on Earth may have been seeded by biological ...
