Apr 10
When three black holes get intimate, their relationship is bound to be complex. According to the first full simulation of this cosmic ménage à trois, it is likely to end in sudden violence.
Apr 10
Astronomers have discovered a distant “twin” solar system which looks very similar to our own. So far researchers have identified two planets very similar to Jupiter and Saturn, which orbit a star about half the size of the Sun around 5,000 light-years away.
Apr 10
In the hypercompetitive world of commercial spaceflight, you need deep pockets just to stay in the game. That’s why some customers and investors are losing confidence in Rocketplane, which spent 2007 getting outflanked by better-funded competitors and being buffeted by bad publicity — instead of launching its first suborbital flight, as the compan
Apr 10
The new study suggests that the universe that came before our own universe was its identical twin. Image credit: NASA and ESA.
Apr 10
Is this a spiral galaxy? No. Actually, it is the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), the largest satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way Galaxy.
Apr 10
A rocket-powered plane that will allow tourists to travel in space is in development and will start flights in two years.Plans have been revealed for ‘Lynx’, a two-seater ’space taxi’, which will be capable of flying 37miles above the Earth from 2010.Flights will cost passengers £50,000 for a journey in the rocket-powered vehicle that is intend