The Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a larger number of black holes in the early universe than scientists had predicted, offering new perspectives on the formation of supermassive black holes. These giants, located…
Jennifer Chu | MIT News A new study by MIT physicists proposes that a mysterious force known as early dark energy could solve two of the biggest puzzles in cosmology and fill in some major…
Recent research suggests that the boundaries of the Milky Way may be much broader than previously thought, to the point of already being in contact with its nearest galactic neighbor, Andromeda. This discovery,…
Maureen Cohen, The Open University Do aliens sleep? You may take sleep for granted, but research suggests many planets that could evolve life don’t have a day and night cycle. It’s hard to…
New research suggests that Ganymede, the largest moon of Jupiter and the solar system, suffered a devastating impact billions of years ago, which may have altered its internal structure and axis of rotation….
The presence of water on the lunar surface is essential for human survival and has therefore attracted great interest from the scientific community. A significant advance in this field has come from the…
Joshua Snape, University of Manchester Data from India’s recent Chandrayaan-3 mission supports the idea that an ocean of molten rock once covered the Moon. Scientists from the mission have published their new findings…
Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Wesleyan University The past decade has seen a rapid expansion of the commercial space industry. Rival nations are competing for prime military and economic positions beyond the Earth. Public and private…
Ruth Ogden, Liverpool John Moores University and Daniel Eduardo Vigo, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Argentina Two astronauts marooned in space may sound like the plot of a Hollywood blockbuster, but for two Nasa…
Around 66 million years ago, a catastrophic event changed the course of life on Earth forever. This event, known as the Chicxulub asteroid impact, not only caused the extinction of around 70% of…