Everybody loves the idea of a parallel universe – but is there really a place in science for such wistful speculation, asks this video from MinutePhysics?
A massive instrument circling the globe aboard the International Space Station has provided a first glimpse of what may be mysterious dark matter in the universe.
A black hole has been observed awakening from its slumber to consume a planet-sized object in a galaxy 47 million light years away, according to astrophysicists who witnessed the rare event.
Spectacular, colourful images of galaxies and galactic objects taken with some of the world’s most powerful telescopes.
Remember that dazzling moment in the Star Wars movies when the Millennium Falcon goes into hyperspace and a kaleidoscope of stars streaks past the ship?
The Milky Way contains at least 17 billion planets the size of Earth, and likely many more, according to a study that raises the chances of discovering a sister planet similar to ours.
Finding that galaxies are not made up of gas and stars but are mostly mysterious dark matter would have made for a great career for most scientists. For Ken Freeman, it was just the beginning.
A merger between the infant Milky Way and a smaller galaxy has been detected with the help of a new theoretical model, providing evidence that our galaxy is a barred-spiral galaxy.
The clash of two titans – physics and chemistry – are major barriers to human space travel to Mars and beyond, and may well make it impossible … at least with existing technologies.
Are parallel realities exerting a strange force on our own, causing galaxy clusters to stream across space towards the edge of the known universe?
