Graphic of the sun, solar winds, and itokawa. Credit: Curtin University Curtin University researchers have helped unravel the enduring mystery of the origins of the…
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The Spanish-Mexican team has found that the boundary between those objects which destroy lithium and those which preserve it lies at 51.5 times the mass…
This animation depicts a star experiencing spaghettification as it’s sucked in by a supermassive black hole during a ‘tidal disruption event’. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser Watch…
This artist’s concept shows a supermassive black hole surrounded by a disk of gas. Embedded in this disk are two smaller black holes that may…
The newly discovered planet is relatively close to its star, at a distance of only about 1.5 million miles out. Credit: NASA, ESA and G.…
Black hole artist’s impression. Credit: ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser) Our telescopes have never detected a black holeA black hole is a place in space where the…
60 Years After It First Gazed at the Skies, the Parkes Radio Telescope Is Still Making Breakthroughs
Credit: CSIRO The CSIRO’s 64-meter Parkes Radio Telescope was commissioned on October 31, 1961. At the time it was the most advanced radio telescope in…
This artist’s concept portrays the seven rocky exoplanets within the TRAPPIST-1 system, located 40 light-years from Earth. Credit: NASA and JPL/Caltech Fragile orbits of seven…
To understand how the universe formed, astronomers have created AbacusSummit, more than 160 simulations of how gravity may have shaped the distribution of dark matter.…
New theory ‘detects’ light in the darkness of a vacuum. Black holes are regions of space-time with huge amounts of gravity. Scientists originally thought that…
The internal compositions of rocky exoplanets correlate with that of their host stars, according to a new study, but not 1:1. This suggests that planet…
Scientists have for the first time detected black holes eating neutron stars, “like Pac Man,” in a discovery documenting the collision of the two most…
Artist’s illustration of a Super-Earth planet. Credit: NASA Ames/JPL-Caltech/Tim Pyle Could life survive around the nearest stars? In collaboration with the Breakthrough Initiative, Saber Astronautics,…
Illustration showing what exoplanet GJ 1214 b could look like based on current information. GJ 1214 b, a warm sub-Neptune-sized exoplanet roughly 48 light-years from…
Many of the heaviest stars in the Universe will end their lives in a bright explosion, known as a supernova, which briefly outshines the rest…
This artist’s impression shows the first interstellar object discovered in the Solar System, `Oumuamua. Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA, ESO, M. Kornmesser On October 19th, 2017, astronomers…
Artist’s rendition of the Kepler-47 circumbinary planet system with its three planets. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle A new technique developed in part by University of Hawaiʻi…
Astronomers detected the temporary dimming of X-rays from a system where a massive star is in orbit around a neutron star or black hole (shown…
The artist impressions depicted in this montage imagine some of the different types of exoplanets and their host stars that might be studied by Cheops.…
Neutron-rich material is ejected from the disk, enabling the rapid neutron-capture process (r-process). The light blue region is a particularly fast ejection of matter, called…