When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. Simulation of a black hole tearing apart an unfortunate star and throwing it out “like bad curry” | Source: Daniel Price (2024) “What happens when you throw a star into a black hole?” That’s not a question we can… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advances and more. An object detected with the help of citizen scientists has been revealed to be moving so fast through the Milky Way that it was able to escape the galaxy’s gravity and reach intergalactic space. The… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advances and more. For six months in the year 1181, a dying star streaked across the night sky. The striking object appeared as bright as Saturn near the constellation Cassiopeia and was recorded as a “guest star” in… Read More »
When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. An illustration shows an exoplanet orbiting a frighteningly massive star. | Credit: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss NASA’s Chandra X-ray space telescope has created a three-dimensional map of stars near the sun that could help astronomers search for exoplanets that could harbor life.… Read More »
It looks set to be another successful summer at the Olympic velodrome for Team GB, with the track cycling team already having won four medals. Britain’s cyclists have won one gold, two silvers and one bronze medal so far for their time in Paris, with the women’s team sprint team celebrating after topping the podium… Read More »
Protests have erupted across the UK following the murder of three young girls in Southport. On Monday, the demonstrations entered their seventh day with mass gatherings in Plymouth, Birmingham, Belfast and Darlington. Following the protests, the Government’s independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, Jonathan Hall KC, said politicians should not rush to classify the riots as… Read More »
When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. An illustration shows a runaway brown dwarf escaping from a spiral galaxy. | Credit: Robert Lea (Created with Canva)/NASA A newly discovered stray stellar body may be a “failed star,” but it’s certainly not a failure when it comes… Read More »
When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. Drawing of a sun-like star orbiting a hidden neutron star. | Credit: Caltech/Kareem El-Badry Astronomers have discovered 21 “one in a million” binary systems, in which sun-like stars orbit a hidden “dead star” – an extremely dense and compact… Read More »
When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. (Main) Illustration of a rapidly spinning neutron star, or pulsar (inset) millisecond pulsar PSR J0437-4715. | Credit: NASA/Sharon Morsink/Devarshi Choudhury et al. Astronomers using the NASA X-ray telescope aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have weighed a rapidly spinning,… Read More »
One week you’re quietly eking out a living working in occupational health in the NHS, the next you’re rubbing shoulders with world leaders at the NATO summit in Washington as the (unofficial) “first lady” of the UK. It’s been quite a transition for Lady Starmer, who has largely been overshadowed throughout her husband’s rise from… Read More »