Advertisement Sometimes the most amazing discoveries can happen just by chance. Case in point: an international team of astronomers accidentally photographed what they think is a planet in the process of growing bigger, 600 light-years away. The star in question is a binary called CS Cha, located in a star-forming region in the southern constellation of Chamaeleon. […]
Years from now, historians and astronomers may look back at our current time as the beginning of a new era in which humanity finally knows for certain that it is not alone in the universe. Thanks to improvements in our telescopes, astronomers are detecting and identifying more and more unexplained radio signals in deep space. […]
Russian cosmonauts have discovered bacteria living outside the International Space Station (ISS). As these bacteria were not in the outer hull when the liveable satellite was launched in 1998, this is particularly strange. The ISS hull samples were collected with a cotton swab during a spacewalk by the Russian space program. Cotton swabs were collected […]
