100 years after, Astronomers carry out the Einstein's Eclipse experiment at La Silla Observatory in Chile To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the historical experiment which verified Einstein's theory…
What if Dark Matter is Lighter? Report Calls for Wider Hunt Researchers are designing nimble new experiments to look for dark matter in previously unexplored ranges of particle mass…
We May Be Floating in the Middle of the Observable Universe's Largest Void There's a lot of stuff here on Earth. Then again, everything is relative. In the grandest…
Big black holes can settle in the outskirts of small galaxies Astronomers have found dozens of surprisingly massive black holes far from the centers of their host dwarf galaxies.…
New Clues About How Ancient Galaxies Lit up the Universe An ambitious new study using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows that ancient galaxies were brighter than scientists anticipated and…
The Mystery of How Fast Our Universe Is Expanding Grows with New Hubble Data New measurements from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope confirm that the universe is expanding about 9…
Gravitational wave detectors upgraded to hunt for 'extreme cosmic events' First we saw black hole mergers. Then we saw two neutron stars collide. Now LIGO's gearing up to reveal…
We Just Discovered The Milky Way Isn't Actually a Flat Disc After All Apparently our galaxy really likes to boogie. It has, on several occasions, enjoyed a Monster Mash;…
Most Detailed Observations of Material Orbiting close to a Black Hole - ESO’s GRAVITY instrument confirms black hole status of the Milky Way centre ESO’s exquisitely sensitive GRAVITY instrument has…
More on AI and neural networks find FRBs! How Breakthrough Listen Trained AI to Spot Elusive, Mysterious Radio Bursts Radio astronomers are increasingly using convolutional neural networks to sift through…
Mysterious Light Flashes Are Coming from Deep Space, and AI Just Found More of Them Last year's mysterious outburst of deep-space light flashes was even more frenzied than previously…
New era of astronomy uncovers clues about the cosmos Astronomers are now able to detect a host of signals streaming through the universe. This newfound ability is like gaining…