Astronomers across the world announced on Thursday that they have found the first evidence of a long-theorised form of gravitational…
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Facial pareidolia is the human tendency or illusion of seeing facial structures in an everyday objects – such as seeing…
The head of one of the US’s national observatories says the search for intelligent life elsewhere in the universe needs…
Using the SPHERE receiver of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Very Southern Telescope (VLT), astronomers noticed that the asteroid Hygea,…
Astronomers are warning that their view of the Universe could be under threat. From next week, a campaign to launch…
A team of scientists believes they have beaten 235-million-to-one odds of finding the lost ‘Snoopy’ spacecraft from the Apollo 10…
We’ve all lost track of time at one point or another, but astronomers really go all in. Recent studies show…
As part of a search into the origins of our galaxy, astronomers at the University of Texas have identified what…
Scientists have discovered an “impossible” star which appears to be older than the universe. The mysterious star Methuselah appears to be…
The strategy uses a technique called gravitational microlensing, currently used by a Japan-New Zealand collaboration called MOA (Microlensing Observations in…
Astronomers on Friday said they had observed the largest structure yet seen in the cosmos, a cluster of galaxies from…
British astronomer and broadcaster Sir Patrick presented the BBC programme The Sky At Night for over 50 years, making him…
An international group of astronomers using the Submillimeter Array and the Combined Array for Millimeter-Wave Astronomy has found evidence of…
Orbiting a star that is visible to the naked eye, astronomers have discovered a planet twice the size of our…
The first U.S. presidential debate of 2012 took place on the evening of Wednesday, October 3. Energy policies were discussed…
Alien life beyond our solar system could be discovered within the next 40 years, a top British astronomer has said.
Chinese astronomers are actively searching for Earth-like planets using survey instruments in Antarctica, as they believe efforts to seek an…
A team of astronomers has detected the “death cry” of a star being devoured by a supermassive black hole. The…