An international team of astronomers has uncovered the first definitive evidence that at least some fast radio bursts (FRBs) originate in binary stellar systems.
An international team of astronomers has uncovered the first definitive evidence that at least some fast radio bursts (FRBs) originate in binary stellar systems.
Why are SMBH in the early Universe so massive? According to astrophysical models, these extraordinarily large SMBH haven’t had time to become so massive. Super-Eddington accretion might explain it, but
It’s been about one millennia since humans directly observed a core-collapse supernova in the Milky Way. That’s strange, since there should be 1 or 2 every century. By working with
Lately we’ve been reporting about a series of studies on the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO), NASA’s flagship telescope mission for the 2040s. These studies have looked at the type of
Water exists across Mars in underground ice, soil moisture, and atmospheric vapour, yet most of it remains frustratingly beyond practical reach for future explorers. A new comparative study from the
Stars change in brightness for all kinds of reasons, but all of them are interesting to astronomers at some level. So imagine their excitement when a star known as J0705+0612
Thousands of pieces of abandoned spacecraft orbit Earth, and when gravity finally pulls them down, authorities rarely know exactly where they’ll land. Now researchers at Johns Hopkins University have demonstrated
We live near a fusion reactor in space that provides all our heat and light. That reactor is also responsible for the creation of various elements heavier than hydrogen, and
The earliest galaxies in the universe earned the nickname “monster galaxies” for good reason, they formed stars at rates hundreds of times faster than the Milky Way, growing rapidly after
Gravitational lensing is a powerful tool that brings impossibly distant galaxies into reach. The JWST uses galaxy clusters and their overpowering to magnify background galaxies that are otherwise beyond our






