Astronomers have detected a cloud of dust the size of a whole star, 330 light-years away. Its cause? A colossal smash-up between two exoplanets that were still just forming.
There is a new kind of mystery object in space, and after capturing their best image yet, astronomers are one step closer to understanding these celestial oddballs.
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has passed its first assignment with flying colours, after it handed in a spectacular photo to NASA.
It was “probably a once-in-a-lifetime” moment for the asteroid hunter.
This is how a black hole can exist in both two dimensions and three dimensions at the same time.
In this celestial “billiards” game, chaos reigns.
This one’s a real head-scratcher.
Bernardinelli-Bernstein is officially the largest comet ever discovered, according to updated observations of the inbound object.
Repeating fast radio bursts are among the more rare and recent mysteries in the cosmos, and the latest discovery of a repeater confounds astronomers’ evolving understanding of the bright flashes of energy from deep space that last for just milliseconds.
A team of German astronomers, led by Professor Klaus Werner of the University of Tübingen, have discovered a strange new type of star covered in the by-product of helium burning. It is possible that the stars might have been formed by a rare stellar merger event.The fascinating results are published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
