For 15 years, one nearby exoplanet refused to reveal its secrets, its spectrum stubbornly flat, its atmosphere unreadable.
Using the Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have discovered a compact binary system consisting of two white dwarfs in the center of a nearby globular cluster designated NGC 6397. The finding was ...
An unusual tidal disruption event spotted by astronomers may be the result of an elusive intermediate mass black hole ripping apart a star.
Since it turned on, the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed dozens of mysterious red blobs in space. The so-called Little Red Dots start to appear around 600 million years after the big bang and ...
For all the millions ploughed into the technology and science that so often now lies behind Olympic gold, this was proof that ...
Using archival data from NASA’s NEOWISE mission along with data from other space and ground-based observatories, astronomers identified the clearest observational record yet of a massive star fading ...