The Moon Turned Itself Inside Out, Scientists Confirm

Scientists seem to have figured out why the Moon is made up of such weird and heavy rocks - way back in the day, it turned itself inside out.

AI Could Explain Why We're Not Meeting Any Aliens, Wild Study Proposes

The Great Filter is a hypothesized event or situation that prevents intelligent life from becoming interplanetary and interstellar and even leads to its demise. Artificial Super Intelligence could be the Great Filter. 

Comet Pons-Brooks, the eclipse-day comet, appears to be in outburst

Comet Pons-Brooks visits the inner solar system every 71 years. Its next perihelion (when it’s closest to the sun) will be on April 21, 2024. 

Unexpected Phenomenon Detected in The Sky of a Very Alien World

A world infamous for its hellacious conditions may have just been seen spotting one of the prettiest phenomena ever to grace Earth's own atmosphere.

The Moon Is Getting Its Own Time Zone

The White House in U.S. has recently directed NASA to establish a unified standard of time for the moon and other celestial bodies.

Dusty Chaos May Be Key to Formation of Life-Building Space Molecules

Combining results of laboratory studies on the infra-red glow of carbon molecules in simulation software has led a team of researchers to a new discovery about the creation of spherical carbon 'cages' called fullerenes.

Astronomers map 1.3 million supermassive black holes

Data from the Gaia Space Telescope was used to identify quasars, the intensely bright young galaxies fueled by black holes.

SOHO Observatory Discovers Its 5,000th Comet

The observatory has achieved this milestone over 28 years in space, even though it was never designed to be a comet hunter.

New Theory Might Explain Our Sun's Wacky Rotation

The differential rotation seems to be reined in by long-period oscillations of sound waves in the convection zone that can be detected on the surface as swirling motions around the poles.

The Total Solar Eclipse Could Solve a Strange Mystery About The Sun

A total solar eclipse takes place on April 8 across North America. 

Strong magnetic fields spiraling at the edge of Milky Way's central black hole

A new image from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration has uncovered strong and organised magnetic fields spiraling from the edge of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*).

Stardust Found in an Ancient Meteorite Was Left by a New Kind of Supernova

A grain of dust recovered from an ancient meteorite that plonked itself down in Antarctica appears to be from a rather unusual place in space and time.

MeerKAT's Swift Scan Revealed 49 New Galaxies in 3 Hours

MeerKAT telescope has already achieved some great results, from detecting giant radio galaxies to studying the centre of our own galaxy, the Milky Way.

Jeff Bezos-Backed Company Passes NASA Test

NASA invested hundreds of millions of dollars in potential replacements for the International Space Station (ISS), with Jeff Bezos’ Orbital Reef passing crucial milestones.

Astrophysicists use supercomputer to explore exotic stellar phenomena

Computer simulations are giving us new insight into the riotous behavior of cannibal neutron stars.