Black Hole 33 Times Bigger Than The Sun Discovered In The Milky Way For The First Time

Looking through data from the @ESAGaia mission, scientists have uncovered a ‘sleeping giant’: a large black hole, 33 times the mass of our Sun, hiding less than 2000 light-years from Earth. This is ... Read More

Extrasolar Planets News

Jan. 14, 2024 — Astronomers have discovered a planet closer and younger than any other Earth ... first known exomoons. A new study now comes to a different ... Discovery of Planet Too Big for ... Read More

Elements Which Refuel Stars Found in Planetary Nebulae

A version of this article appears in the July 4, 1942 issue of Science News. Love our Health & Medicine stories? Our coverage would not be possible without the generous support of subscribers to ... Read More

Meet Gaia-BH3, The Largest Stellar Black Hole Ever Spotted And The 2nd-Nearest To Earth

Analysing data from ESA’s Gaia mission, scientists made a remarkable discovery - they spotted Gaia-BH3, the largest ever stellar black hole. The post Meet Gaia-BH3, The Largest Stellar Black Hole Ever ... Read More

Gravitational Wave Detection: How Earth, Jupiter Could Unravel Cosmic Mysteries

A group of scientists believed that Earth and Jupiter could be used as laboratories that would help convert gravitational waves into light particles. Read More

Astronomers Discover Milky Way's 'Sleeping Giant' Black Hole Shockingly Close to Earth

The Milky Way has a big newfound black hole, and it lurks close to Earth! This sleeping giant was discovered with the European space telescope Gaia, which tracks the motion of billions of stars in our ... Read More

Jupiter News

Oct. 31, 2023 — Giant gas planets can be agents of chaos, ensuring nothing lives on their Earth ... found the coldest star yet emitting at these long wave lengths. Understanding the science ... Read More

Planet-sized solid metal ball ‘found’ at the centre of the Earth…& 400 mile-wide ‘innermost core’ could be KEY to life

In 1936, Danish seismologist Inge Lehmann for the first time discovered the ... "seismic waves reverberating through the entire planet" which helped to conclude the discovery. They found that ... Read More

When did we realize that Earth orbits the Sun?

A: We had no direct view of Earth until the dawn of the Space Age. Finding physical evidence that our planet revolves around the Sun took some ... James Bradley discovered this phenomenon in ... Read More

Earth news

Writing in the journal Science, Prof Robert Nicholls of ... of as the closest layer of the atmosphere to the Earth's surface, the planetary boundary layer (PBL)—the lowest layer of the ... Read More

Most distant spacecraft from Earth sends data to NASA for first time in 5 months

The most distant spacecraft from Earth has resumed sending data after a five-month gap, NASA said Monday. Read More