Does alien life have to look like us? Or even be intelligent?
18 September 2019
Imagined Life, a riveting update of what we know about the planets beyond our solar system, makes smart guesses about what we might face when we do make contact
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A stargazer's guide to the equinox and how Earth moves around the sun
18 September 2019
As the September equinox falls, we begin a new astronomy series with all you need to know about how Earth's orbit affects what we see in the night sky
Black hole that 'rings' like a bell shows Einstein was right
16 September 2019
Astronomers have looked at the way a black hole 'rings' like a bell to test a prediction of Einstein’s general relativity. Turns out Einstein is still right
We may have spotted an interstellar comet flying towards Earth
11 September 2019
Astronomers have found a comet that seems to have come from beyond our solar system, which would make it the second interstellar object that we’ve ever spotted
This watery planet is the best place to hunt life we've seen so far
11 September 2019
We've spotted water vapour in the atmosphere of a distant planet twice Earth’s size. It's probably the single best place to hunt for alien life that we know of
There is a pair of weird, gigantic bubbles at the centre of our galaxy
11 September 2019
There are strange bubbles of particles looming above and below the Milky Way, and they may have been blasted out by our galaxy’s supermassive black hole
