They call it dark matter—an invisible substance thought to make up most of the universe’s mass, sculpting galaxies and ...
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See Comet Lemmon at its brightest

Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) is currently a 5th-magnitude fuzzball low in the northwestern sky. This means that, from a dark site ...
As Luke Jerram’s Mars comes to Truro Cathedral, we explore memorials to two famous scientists – including one from Launceston ...
For the first time ever, astronomers revealed the birthplace of an energetic jet blasted by a newborn star using the Atacama ...
On Episode 182 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by Terry Hart to discuss his career from a fighter ...
Tidal disruption events occur when a star strays too close to a massive black hole and is ripped apart by its gravity. In ...
Scientists figured out that the universe is billions of years old — after years of reading ancient rocks and dying stars, and ...
Astronomers have witnessed something that no one believed possible: a black hole ripping apart a star not at the center of a ...
In an astonishing feat of gravitational sleuthing, astronomers have found a mysterious, dense blob of invisible matter ...