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Hubble sees evaporating planet getting the hiccups

A young planet whirling around a petulant red dwarf star is changing in unpredictable ways orbit-by-orbit.

July 27, 2023 Read more

James Webb Space Telescope sees Jupiter moons in a new light

Hydrogen peroxide detected at Ganymede's poles; sulfur monoxide from Io's volcanos.

July 27, 2023 Read more

Astronomers reveal new features of galactic black holes

International team of scientists reports the first detection of a quasi-periodic oscillation signal in the radio band from a Galactic black hole system.

July 27, 2023 Read more

New image reveals secrets of planet birth

A spectacular new image released today by the European Southern Observatory gives us clues about how planets as massive as Jupiter could form.

July 25, 2023 Read more

Scientists find key evidence for existence of nanohertz gravitational waves

Scientists have found key evidence for the existence of nanohertz gravitational waves, marking a new era in nanohertz gravitational wave research.

July 24, 2023 Read more

Webb detects water vapor in rocky planet-forming zone

New measurements by the James Webb Space Telescope have detected water vapor at distances of less than 100 million miles from the star - the region where rocky, terrestrial planets may be forming.

July 24, 2023 Read more

Hubble sees boulders escaping from asteroid dimorphos

Astronomers using Hubble's extraordinary sensitivity have discovered a swarm of boulders that were possibly shaken off the asteroid when NASA deliberately slammed the half-ton DART impactor spacecraft into Dimorphos at approximately 14,000 miles per hour.

July 21, 2023 Read more

How old are stars outside clusters?

Scientists have successfully established a connection between the rotation rates of stars in star clusters and those outside them, so-called field stars, enabling the ages of the latter to be derived.

July 20, 2023 Read more

Two-faced star exposed

Unusual white dwarf star is made of hydrogen on one side and helium on the other.

July 19, 2023 Read more

Astronomers find new type of stellar object

The discovery of a new type of stellar object challenges our understanding of the physics of neutron stars.

July 19, 2023 Read more

Astronomers identify the coldest star yet that emits radio waves

Cooler than a campfire and smaller than Jupiter, this brown dwarf star is a rare find.

July 13, 2023 Read more

When the stars align: Astronomers find answers to mysterious action of ghost stars in our Galaxy

Scientists have found a source for the mysterious alignment of stars near the Galactic Centre.

July 13, 2023 Read more

More evidence key building block of life were on Mars

Perseverance rover discovers diverse organic matter in Mars's Jezero Crater.

July 12, 2023 Read more

'Sandwich' discovery offers new explanation for planet formation

By investigating the 'birth environment' of planets - areas of gas and dust that swirl around a central star - known as the protoplanetary disc, astronomers have made a new discovery on how small planets might form.

July 5, 2023 Read more

Black hole ripples could help pin down expansion of Universe

The echoes of light from jets launched from black holes offers a new way to pin down the distance to these exotic objects and to study a largely unobserved population in the centre of the Galaxy. It could also even help determine the rate of expansion of the Universe.

July 5, 2023 Read more

Astrophysicists propose a new way of measuring cosmic expansion: lensed gravitational waves

A major scientific goal of future detectors is to deliver a comprehensive catalog of gravitational wave events, and this will be a completely novel use of the remarkable dataset.

July 3, 2023 Read more

Quasar 'clocks' show Universe was five times slower soon after the Big Bang

Quasars are the supermassive black holes at the centres of early galaxies. Scientists have unlocked their secrets to use them as 'clocks' to measure time near the beginning of the universe. With this tick-tock of the quasar clock, we can now chart time across the life of the cosmos.

July 3, 2023 Read more

Breakthrough in the search for slowly oscillating gravitational waves

For the first time, astrophysicists have found compelling evidence for the existence of gravitational waves which oscillate with periods ranging from years to decades.

June 29, 2023 Read more