That means that a good ... Scientists Pin Down the Origins of a Fast Radio Burst Jan. 1, 2025 — Astronomers pinned down the origins of at least one fast radio burst, a brief and brilliant ...

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A giant “hiccuping” star has been documented for the first time in the final stages of its life before exploding by an international team of astronomers, including from Queen’s University ...

Astronomers have been left baffled after spotting a giant star 'hiccuping'. The rare cosmic event only occurs with exceptionally large stars between 60 to 150 times the mass of the sun. While ...

Photograph by NASA/ESA/Reuters/Redux This work helps to fill in astronomers’ understanding of the asteroid belt, the wreckage left behind from the inner solar system’s formation—and it’s ...

It is roughly 27,000 light years from Earth and 23.5 million kilometres in diameter. In a world first, a team of astronomers led by Florian Peißker from the University of Cologne, Germany, have ...

Quantum calorimeters are opening this new window on the Universe. First promised four decades ago, the quantum-calorimeter era of X-ray astronomy has finally dawned. A quantum calorimeter is a device ...

Newsletter: Jeopardy! fans are buzzing about current champ Ashley Chan, who is the first three-day female champ (and perhaps counting) since Adriana Harmeyer more than six months ago. She’s also ...

But according to an idea doing the rounds on social media, that may not be the case: "According to astronomy, when you wish upon a star you're a million years too late. The star is dead ...

Voyager 1 is currently exploring interstellar space at a distance of 15.5 billion miles (24.9 billion kilometers) away from Earth. Communicating with the farthest human-made object is challenging ...

An astronomer based in Japan has captured the moment when an unknown object – believed to be a meteor, and possibly one of the Geminids – struck part of the Moon. The Geminids – first ...

While investigating a mysterious radiation signal unlike any seen before, astronomers may have uncovered a rare pair of binary supermassive black holes with a truly monstrous appetite. When you ...