On October 6 1995, at a scientific meeting in Florence, Italy, two Swiss astronomers made an announcement that would transform our understanding of the universe beyond our solar system. Michel Mayor ...

Exoplanet hunters Christopher Watson and Annelies Mortier explain the long search for a 'twin Earth' capable of sustaining ...

On October 6 1995, at a scientific meeting in Florence, Italy, two Swiss astronomers made an announcement that would transform our understanding of ...

A ROGUE planet was spotted growing at a mind-bending rate of six billion tonnes a SECOND. The lost world doesn’t have a home ...

Gauging the mass of a black hole is tricky, but astronomers have devised multiple methods to measure the heft of these ...

NASA has announced a new milestone in the hunt for planets around other star systems, known as "exoplanets". Humanity has been looking at the stars for a long time, but the earliest detections of ...

We take our understanding of where we are for granted, until we lose it. When we get lost in nature or a new city, our eyes and brains kick into gear, seeking familiar objects that tell us where we ...

A newly proposed type of stellar object, called a dark dwarf, may be hiding in the heart of our galaxy. These faint, low-mass stars could be powered not by fusion, but by the annihilation of dark ...

Two children were killed and 17 others were injured when a shooter opened fire during a morning Mass for a Minneapolis Catholic school, with the nation subsequently reeling from the tragedy and ...

Artists and scientists have been creating optical illusions for ages now. It is only since the pandemic that the internet has started flooding with optical illusion tests to test IQ and discover ...

Astronomers believe they have finally confirmed the existence of a group of black holes that are too hefty to be born from normal stars, yet too slim to anchor galaxies – intermediate-mass black holes ...

Astronomers have identified what could be a new supermassive black hole, and with an estimated mass 36 billion times that of the sun, it has about 10,000 times the mass of the black hole at the center ...