New Discovery Sheds Light on Very Early Supermassive Black Holes Astronomers from the University of Texas and the University of Arizona have discovered a rapidly…
A new study led by a joint team at Nagoya University and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan has measured the cosmic age of a…
A galaxy has been discovered that mirrors the very early version of our home galaxy, the Milky Way. The galaxy, dubbed ‘The Sparkler’, is embedded…
Milky Way Discovered To Be More Unique Than Previously Thought Is the Milky Way special, or, at least, is it in a special place in…
The black hole is over 1 billion light-years away. A team of astronomers has found a unique black hole that is shooting a fiery jet…
Astronomers from Liverpool John Moores University and the University of Montpellier have devised an ‘early warning’ system to sound the alert when a massive star…
30 years ago, the first-ever exoplanets were discovered around a rapidly rotating star, called a pulsar. Now, astronomers have revealed that these planets may be…
A team of astronomers, led by Professor Amaury Triaud of the University of Birmingham, has detected a rare type of exoplanet using a ground-based telescope….
A team of German astronomers, led by Professor Klaus Werner of the University of Tübingen, has discovered a strange new type of star covered in…
Scientists have produced the largest and most accurate virtual representation of the Universe to date. An international team of researchers, led by the University of…
An international team of researchers, led by postgraduate student Alexis Andrés, has found that the black hole at the center of our galaxy, Sagittarius A*,…
An international team of astronomers, led by researcher Chervin Laporte of the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB-IEEC), has used data…
Northern hemisphere stargazers can look forward to what could be 2022’s best meteor shower on January 3-4. Observers enjoying dark skies could see 50 or…
Middle-aged stars can experience their own kind of midlife crisis, experiencing dramatic breaks in their activity and rotation rates at about the same age as…
An international team of astronomers led by researchers from the Netherlands has found no trace of dark matter in the galaxy AGC 114905, despite taking…
The final stage of cataclysmic explosions of dying massive stars, called supernovae, could pack an up to six times bigger punch on the surrounding interstellar…
Black holes with masses equivalent to millions of suns do put a brake on the birth of new stars, say astronomers. Using machine learning and…
A team at the Natural History Museum (NHM), London is paving the way for future rovers to search for meteorites on Mars. The scientists are…
