Scientist creates 'mini‑universe' to measure time without a clock

Scientist has built a "mini-universe" that takes a step toward answering one of science's biggest questions: "What is time?

Big Bang inside a star: How a gravastar may form

A gravastar (gravitational vacuum star) is a hypothetical cosmic object proposed as an alternative to a black hole. 

Earliest Flickering Quasar Ever Seen Could Explain Monster Black Holes

Astronomers have discovered the earliest known flickering quasar, whose light has traveled more than 13 billion years to reach us.

Experts confirm universe's expansion IS accelerating

A study published last year claiming the growth of the universe is slowing has been refuted. Our universe's expansion is still accelerating despite recent claims suggesting otherwise, an international team of astrophysicists say.

Solar System Once Had A Fifth Giant Planet

Our Solar System may once have hosted not two, but three ice giants. This long-lost world could help explain why the outer planets and their moons look the way they do today.

Supermassive black holes could be prolific planet-making machines

A new research estimates that of order tens of millions of planetary mass objects can form in outer regions of AGN accretion disks - active supermassive black holes.

Astronomers Detect Clearest Signs Yet of Magnetic Fields on Extrasolar Planets

By tracking fierce winds racing through the atmospheres of seven ultra-hot Jupiters, astronomers have uncovered the strongest evidence yet that magnetic fields shape weather on worlds beyond our Solar System.

Webb Detects Methane on Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

Using the spectral data, James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have detected methane on 3I/ATLAS. This is the first direct detection of methane in an interstellar object.

Meteorite Found in Africa Preserves Evidence of Long-Lost Massive Protoplanet

The Northwest Africa (NWA) 12774, an angrite meteorite, appears to be a fragment of a vanished protoplanet, offering the strongest evidence yet that a large planetary body formed and was later destroyed during the Solar System’s chaotic infancy.

Chunk of Flesh That Refuses to Die After Several Years

In a new study researchers say that a cut sample of the creature, a species called Psolus fabricii ( Sea Cucumber), has survived for three years while being kept in natural seawater, growing and repairing all on its own.

A stellar “Rosetta stone” reveals the source of mysterious cosmic signals

Researchers traced long-period transient bursts to a rare stellar duo in which a dense white dwarf is relentlessly siphoning material from a nearby red dwarf companion. 

Scientists Found a Black Hole That Breaks The Rules of Astrophysics

Working with the JWST, researchers have now found a SMBH with 50 million solar masses that appears to predate its host galaxy.

Evidence of Ancient Life Found Buried Under an Asteroid Crater

Beneath a crater gouged by a massive impact around 42,000 years ago, several stromatolites were identified. This discovery suggests that the heat generated by the impact may have created a hydrothermal environment.

Newly discovered asteroid to fly past Earth this week

The space rock has been given the name 2026 JH2 and is thought to be up to around 35 metres wide - around the length of a 5-a-side football pitch.

Waterworn chaos on Mars

Shalbatana Vallis is an impressive channel near Mars’s equator. It is 1300 km in length - around the length of Italy. Formed formed around 3.5 billion years ago, when huge quantities of groundwater rose up to Mars’s surface.