One day humans will set foot on another habitable planet. The planet may look very different from Earth, but according to scientists, one thing that...
Observations from the Hubble Space Telescope reveal two particularly rare binary quasars in the early universe. Quasars are the most powerful celestial bodies in the...
Recently, the Virgin Galactic company revealed the image of a micro-orbital spacecraft that will take luxury passengers on a journey to the edge of space....
High-resolution computer simulations reveal “flocculating particles”, the first structures to arrive in the early universe. The first millionth of a second after the Big Bang,...
Scientists bypassed NASA’s massive Chandra Observatory data warehouse between 2002 and 2017 and discovered unusual x-rays that had been ignored. It comes from the most...
Researchers used fossilized pollen and leaves from Colombia to study the collision that changed South America’s rainforests. After the 12 km-diameter asteroid struck Earth 66...
Astronomers have discovered two giant radio galaxies in the distant universe based on observations from the MeerKAT Observatory. The name of “radio-galaxies” comes from the...