A team of astronomers have used observations from the Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET) at the McDonald Observatory at the University of Texas at Austin to discover…
A flash of light brighter than a trillion suns reveals the location of a strange galaxy with a double black hole
Mysterious flares in the sky brighter than a trillion suns are actually the glow from two distant circling black holes, astronomers have confirmed in new…
Scientists discover rocky vapors in the ultra-hot Jupiter near us, famous for raining metal
There are planets in our Universe that are classified as ultrahot Jupiters. We can assume that this is due to its enormous size and its…
Scientists discover the fastest stars ever seen in the Milky Way
Astronomers have detected the fastest runaway star ever seen in the Milky Way galaxy: the shell of a star thrown at breakneck speeds from a…
Phosphorus, the critical ingredient for life that was yet to be found on this moon of Saturn, is detected in Enceladus
The moon Enceladus, photographed by the Cassini NASA spacecraft The discovery of phosphates in the subterranean ocean of Enceladus makes it habitable, although not necessarily…
Thanks to the Webb Space Observatory, they discover that galaxies transformed the early universe
The finding by scientists from the University of Zurich and published by NASA sheds light on a period known scientifically as ‘the Era of Reionization’,…
Betelgeuse continues to behave mysteriously: this is what would happen if it exploded
The bright, red star Betelgeuse in the constellation Orion showed unexpected behavior. In late 2019 and 2020, it became weaker than we’ve ever seen it,…
Astronomers discover a planetary system similar to the mythical Tatooine from ‘Star Wars’
Circumbinary systems are those in which the planets orbit around two suns, and this is the second to have more than one planet An international…
New results from the IceCube neutrino observatory and the Fermi Space Telescope
New research provides preliminary evidence in support of a model of quantum gravity that suggests that the velocity of ultrarelativistic particles decreases with increasing energy.…
Long-rising Type II Supernovae in the Zwicky Transient Facility Census of the Local Universe
Recently, a group of astronomers led by Tawny Sit of The Ohio State University (OSU) identified 13 long-evolving Type II SNe (out of a total…