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In October 2022, astronomers were stunned by what was quickly dubbed the BOAT - the brightest-of-all-time gamma-ray burst. Now an international science team reports that data from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope reveals a feature never seen before.
Jul 26th, 2024
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Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have found a six times larger version of Jupiter, a mere 3.6 parsecs away.
Jul 24th, 2024
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PLATO, or PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars, is being built to find nearby potentially habitable worlds around Sun-like stars that we can examine in detail.
Jul 18th, 2024
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A proposed detector will allow physicists to cover uncharted territory in their search for elusive dark matter.
Jul 18th, 2024
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Tantalising evidence of potential dark matter objects has been detected with the help of the Universe's 'timekeepers'.
Jul 16th, 2024
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Scientists furnished a model for revealing what the color of a galaxy tells about its distance, to be used for measuring cosmic structures.
Jul 15th, 2024
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The discovery is the best candidate for a class of black holes astronomers have long believed to exist but have never found - intermediate-mass black holes formed in early stages of galaxy evolution.
Jul 10th, 2024
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A team of astronomers has made an exciting discovery about the temperate exoplanet LHS 1140 b: it could be a promising 'super-Earth' covered in ice or water.
Jul 10th, 2024
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Age data for certain classes of meteorite have made it possible to gain new findings on the origin of small water-rich astronomical bodies in the early solar system. These planetesimals continually supplied building materials for planets - also for the Earth, whose original material contained little water.
Jul 9th, 2024
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Elusive temporary star described in historical documents recreated using new computer model, shows it may have recently started generating stellar winds.
Jul 5th, 2024
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A recent discovery by the James Webb Space Telescope confirmed that luminous, very red objects previously detected in the early universe upend conventional thinking about the origins and evolution of galaxies and their supermassive black holes.
Jun 28th, 2024
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The history of how stars and galaxies came to be and evolved into the present day remains among the most challenging astrophysical questions to solve yet, but new research brings us closer to understanding it.
Jun 24th, 2024
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Astronomers have discovered a powerful rotating, magnetic wind that they believe is helping a galaxy's central supermassive black hole to grow.
Jun 20th, 2024
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Alignment of bipolar jets confirms star formation theories.
Jun 20th, 2024
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New simulations show that neutrinos created during these cataclysmic events are briefly out of thermodynamic equilibrium with the cold cores of the merging stars.
Jun 18th, 2024
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In late 2019, galaxy SDSS1335+0728 brightened unexpectedly. Astronomers used observatory data to track its brightness, revealing a massive black hole awakening at its core.
Jun 18th, 2024
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Combined X-ray surveys and supercomputer simulations track 12 billion years of cosmic black-hole growth.
Jun 12th, 2024
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The discovery helps illuminate the way active black holes can continuously shape their galaxies by spurring on or snuffing out the development of new stars.
Jun 12th, 2024
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