NASA tests Einstein’s theory, confirming our sun is losing mass
According to a press statement from NASA on 18 January, our solar system’s beloved yellow star is slowly succumbing to the heartless process of time....
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Black holes get indigestion after a stellar feast
We’ve all been there. We gobble down a delicious meal, and not so long after our stomach starts to rumble, indicating a build up that...
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NASA’s Juno spacecraft sends back gorgeous shots of Jupiter
NASA’s 1 billion dollar spacecraft, Juno, completed its 10th orbit of Jupiter on December 16, during which it took a number of images that look...
NASA goes for GOLD at Earth’s edge
On Thursday, NASA announced its GOLD mission — the Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk mission — which is set to launch on January 25. GOLD...
Twitter gives its two cents on ‘Oumuamua
The very first recorded interstellar object — an object which is not bound to any star’s gravity — was spotted by Robert Weryk in Hawai’i...
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off in a cloud of light that people confuse for aliens
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has taken off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Immediately after it was seen in the California skies, bystanders...
NASA’s next mission will be either to Titan or a comet
NASA’s next mission will go where some spacecraft have gone before. The two finalists in the agency’s New Frontier selection process will return to either...
New study lends some proof to the theory that life began in space
While we’re relatively certain that life on Earth began around 3.8 billion years ago, we’re not so sure about where life came from. The idea that life, or...
Video: Elon Musk’s SpaceX launches first recycled spacecraft in history
SpaceX has broken a record in the world of spaceflight. For the first time in history, a spacecraft was launched using mostly recycled and refurbished...
NASA announces the discovery of a new solar system like ours
For the first time in history, humans have now discovered a solar system with as many planets as our own, the expert astronomers revealed. NASA’s...
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot reveals more of its secrets
We’ve all seen the Great Red Spot. That colossal storm raging ceaselessly on Jupiter is one of the most recognisable features of the solar system....
Astronomers are scanning the interstellar object ‘Oumuamua for alien life
A strange object that flew past Earth in October might be some kind of alien artefact, scientists have said. Initially, astronomers thought that ‘Oumuamua — Hawaiian...
NASA to hold major press conference on a new discovery
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is to hold a press conference on a “discovery beyond our solar system”. According to a release, they plan...
Astronomers find supermassive black hole, weighing the same as 800 million suns
Cosmic Relics Astronomers have discovered an enormous, supermassive black hole that existed when the universe was a mere 5% of what it is today. In...