"It sits behind so much dust that it is essentially invisible in ordinary optical images." Astronomers have discovered the first microblazar in the Milky Way, a black hole-power…
Time: it's constantly running out and we never have enough of it. Some say it’s an illusion, some say it flies like an arrow. Well, this arrow of time is a big headache in physics. Why …
The countdown is on. You don’t exactly become a world-renowned futurist by making safe predictions. And while all of those past predictions don’t always come to pass, these ideas help e…
There's no proof of other life beyond Earth yet, but scientists are constantly looking out and listening for signs that we're not actually alone in the Universe. Now, a team fro…
In our endless search to understand the Universe and our place within it, precious little blips in data can hint at entire new worlds. Dips in the light levels of a star can betray the pr…
Maybe there is a way to work out what happened, even if our science break The evidence for the Big Bang is overwhelming, but we cannot describe what goes on in that event. We can’t accura…
Voyager is now over 170 astronomical units from Earth, but amateur astronomers still managed to detect it. Amateur astronomers using the Dwingeloo Radio Observatory in the northeastern Ne…