Although their primary purpose is to look for exoplanets, observatories like the Kepler Space Telescope and the Transiting Exoplanet Survey...
When astronomers looked at a stellar pair at the heart of a stunning cloud of gas and dust, they were...
Researchers using Murriyang, CSIRO’s Parkes radio telescope, have detected unusual radio pulses from a previously dormant star with a powerful...
High sensitivity radio observations have discovered a cloud of magnetized plasma in the Hydra galaxy cluster. The odd location and...
Sometime between now and September, a massive explosion 3,000 light years from Earth will flare up in the night sky,...
Potential signs of the rainbow-like “glory effect” have been detected on a planet outside our solar system. Glory are colorful...
In October 2022, an international team of researchers, including Northwestern University astrophysicists, observed the brightest gamma-ray burst (GRB) ever recorded,...
An international research team led by Gregory Desvignes from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, has...
Our solar system and everything within it—including the Earth—will look very different when the sun dies. But whether the planet...
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to...
A team of astronomers has used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to survey the starburst galaxy Messier 82 (M82). Located...
Guessing your age might be a popular carnival game, but for astronomers it’s a real challenge to determine the ages...