Physicists searching—unsuccessfully—for today’s most favored candidate for dark matter, the axion, have been looking in the wrong place, according to...
Durham University astronomer collaborating with a team of international scientists have mapped more than a quarter of the northern sky...
Astronomers have been surprised by the closest source of mysterious flashes in the sky called fast radio bursts. Precision measurements...
Locked in an epic cosmic waltz 9 billion light years away, two supermassive black holes appear to be orbiting around...
The phenomenon of fast radio bursts is one of the greatest mysteries of modern astrophysics. Until now it has been...
By a stroke of luck, a team led by Dutch Ph.D. student Martijn Oei has discovered a radio galaxy of...
In time for Valentine’s Day, NASA’s Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer which launched Dec. 9, 2021, has delivered its first imaging...
The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (ESO’s VLTI) has observed a cloud of cosmic dust at the center...
Dude, what if everything around us was just … a hologram? The thing is, it could be—and a University of...
The moment that debris from destroyed planets impacts the surface of a white dwarf star has been observed for the...
Astronomers from Leiden Observatory have developed a new method to find distant quasars and better distinguish them from other objects...
A ring of planetary debris studded with moon-sized structures has been observed orbiting close to a white dwarf star, hinting...
