When astronomers looked at a stellar pair at the heart of a stunning cloud of gas and dust, they were...
An international research team led by Gregory Desvignes from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, has...
Researchers using Murriyang, CSIRO’s Parkes radio telescope, have detected unusual radio pulses from a previously dormant star with a powerful...
Our solar system and everything within it—including the Earth—will look very different when the sun dies. But whether the planet...
High sensitivity radio observations have discovered a cloud of magnetized plasma in the Hydra galaxy cluster. The odd location and...
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to...
Sometime between now and September, a massive explosion 3,000 light years from Earth will flare up in the night sky,...
A team of astronomers has used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to survey the starburst galaxy Messier 82 (M82). Located...
Potential signs of the rainbow-like “glory effect” have been detected on a planet outside our solar system. Glory are colorful...
Guessing your age might be a popular carnival game, but for astronomers it’s a real challenge to determine the ages...
While investigating 16 years of images of young stars from a retired astronomical camera, Leiden master’s student Sam de Regt...
Galaxies start life with their stars rotating in an orderly pattern but in some the motion of stars is more...
