A pair of stars orbiting one another has been found near the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* using the European ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured imagery of the R Aquarii binary star system from 2014-2023. The images have been time-lapsed here to show the evolution of the region. Credit: NASA, ESA, M.

The SOAR Telescope, located on Cerro Pachón in Chile, has received a major upgrade with the installation of the SOAR ...

Millions of 3G and 4G compatible phones will be contacted in just under an hour as part of the UK Government's emergency alert system test. The scale of the test may leave some wondering if their ...

Ireland’s public healthcare infrastructure is facing intensifying scrutiny over its preparedness for a surge in dementia cases, as Health Service Executive (HSE) data reveals a significant reduction ...

The government is planning an overhaul of the asylum appeals system as it tries to cut the number of migrants staying in hotels while they await a ruling. Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said she was ...

The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty confusing, doesn’t it? Our decimal system seems simple by comparison, with ...

Let’s be honest; giving your number to strangers (or even an acquaintance) has always felt risky. Women especially know the drill, say “hi,” and some guy is already asking for your WhatsApp contact ...

Apple will reportedly change the way it names its operating systems, per a Bloomberg report. Operating systems will now be named by year, meaning the update after the current iOS 18 will be iOS 26 ...

A binary star system is a pair of stars gravitationally bound and orbiting a common centre of mass. In 2004, David Ramm at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand spotted a mysterious repeating ...