Astronomers have been surprised by discovering the closest located source of the mysterious cosmic flashes in the sky, known as fast radio bursts.
Precision measurements...
George Rieke, Professor of Astronomy and Planetary Sciences at the University of Arizona and Science Team Lead for the James Webb Space Telescope’s Mid-Infrared...
A research team from the University of Birmingham has employed a ground-based telescope to observe an exoplanet called ‘Kepler-16b.’
What is Kepler-16b?
Kepler-16b is an exoplanet...
A collaborative research team from the Universities of Tübingen and Potsdam have discovered a new star type whilst searching for ‘hot stars.’
How did the...
A novel study conducted by the University of Warwick (UW) reveals decades of indirect evidence for debris from disintegrating planets hurtling into white dwarfs...
Using the NOEMA radio telescope array and a cosmic water cloud, researchers have revealed the temperature of the early Universe.
An international collaboration of researchers...
A research team has established a new International Astronomical Union Centre to protect the dark sky from satellite constellation interference.
What issues are caused by...
Astronomers have identified two different cases of ‘mini-Neptune’ planets that are losing their puffy atmospheres and potentially transforming into 'super Earths.'
What are ‘mini-Neptune’ planets...
Scientists from Georgia State University have discovered an explanation for the curious occurrence of massive stars situated far from their birthplace in the disk...
Researchers from the University of Leicester’s School of Physics and Astronomy, have for the first time, observed a complex ‘tug-of-war’ effect that lights up...
The Heineman Foundation, at the American Institute of Physics, and American Astronomical Society, announced Professor Norman Murray as the winner of the 2022 Dannie...
A research team from Lund University succeeded in mapping the atmosphere of WASP-189b, an exoplanet located 322 lightyears from Earth.
The exoplanet was first observed in...