Written by Anna Taylor Well, folks, the nights are drawing in again and it really feels like autumn now. The autumn equinox has come and gone, and we are slowly heading towards the winter solstice; the very shortest day of the year. First to come though we have events Read more…
Astrobiology is the study of life on planets or moons other than the Earth. But, to search for life, we must first know what life is. And that might not be as simple a task as you’d think. It turns out that ‘life’ might just be an arbitrary definition that Read more…
While you may be familiar with black holes from sci-fi and many artists’ renditions of the phenomenon, our first actual view of the event horizon of the supermassive black hole which is at the centre of a neighbouring galaxy, Messier 87, was released 4 weeks ago to the day. What Read more…