We’ve been so busy wondering how we’ll find aliens that we never stopped to consider what we’ll do if we actually encounter them. How does an alien discovery get communicated to the media?
Deep in the cosmos, NASA’s TESS has discovered four new worlds orbiting a pair of young stars that provides a glimpse of planetary evolution.
There are stellar-mass and supermassive black holes. But very little evidence of anything in between. Where are all the intermediate-mass black holes that should be the building blocks of the biggest ones?
Today’s Travelers in the NIght talk about asteroid 2024 BX1 exploded harmlessly in our atmosphere and P/1999 J6 (SOHO)
Cheap Astronomy stumbles around in the dark againWhat is the latest on dark matter? Are black holes the source of dark energy?
Astronomers researching the G237 protocluster find 63 galaxies within, all producing stars and more galaxies at a high rate, acting as a “shipyard” for their region of the cosmos
We come at you with all the fun of AstroCamp in Cwmdu, Wales. Chat, debate and birdsong!
Today’s Big Impact Astronomy discuss with Kevin Govender from OAD about his work in astronomy
How do we explain the giant black holes appearing in the young universe? Is it possible to directly collapse a black hole, skipping the formation of stars? What does ultraviolet radiation have to do with this?
It’s in the news and people are claiming aliens… but is it aliens? Let’s see what the data actually says.