The visionary physicist who gave us a new way to view the cosmos
Earlier this year, Tony Tyson got a sneak preview of the first images taken by the brand-new Vera…
Surprise ‘tail’ found on an iconic galaxy may rewrite its history
Galaxy M61 sports a long stellar stream, which had not been spotted before now.Credit: NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin…
How to understand exoplanets — space scientists call on lab-based chemists to help
In the 30 years since exoplanets were first reported1, telescopes have revealed thousands of them. One of the…
Why we still don’t understand the Universe — even after a century of dispute
Discordance: The Troubled History of the Hubble Constant Jim Baggott Oxford Univ. Press (2025) Ever since the publication…
Mysterious cosmic ‘dots’ are baffling astronomers. What are they?
An artist’s impression of a black hole star, the explanation favoured by many astronomers for the little red…
The Moon is rusting — thanks to ‘wind’ blown all the way from Earth
A stream of charged particles that blows from Earth (foreground) to the Moon could account for the rust…
black-hole breakthroughs will ‘only get better’
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) facility, in Hanford, Washington.Credit: IMAGO/Xinhua via Alamy Ten years after the historic…
Astronomers discover mysterious ‘interstellar tunnel’: Check key findings about a hidden cosmic channel
Humans have long imagined space to be an empty frontier where only roving planets and far-off stars may…