Astronomers used radio and infrared telescopes while looking at a supermassive black hole. They saw, for the first time how the black hole ejected material as it ripped apart a star. Most... Read more »
Over 100 planets have moons that could be inhabited, found astronomers. They were looking into the cosmos to detect signs of extraterrestrial life. NASA launched the Kepler space telescope in 2009, and... Read more »
Harvey Underwood is the proud Tsawout First Nation Chief who now gets to look up at the sky, knowing that the name of their community has a place among the stars. Somewhere... Read more »
Astronomers watching the Ant Nebula at the European Space Agency’s Herschel space observatory have made a spectacular discovery. The nebula emitted laser blasts, telling astronomers that inside its core there is something hidden... Read more »
The European Space Agency mission called Laser Interferometer Space Antenna – or LISA will be able to detect and precisely measure gravitational waves. Astronomers define gravitational waves as tiny ripples in the... Read more »
When looking at a young double star called CS Cha, an international team of astronomers realized they saw something else close to the binary star. It proves they were looking at a... Read more »
Astronomers believed that the Solar system has nine planets. For decades, astronomers thought we had nine planets in the Solar system. However, in 2006 Pluto lost its status as a planet. Now,... Read more »