A giant star called VVV-WIT-08 exhibited a smooth, eclipse-like drop in brightness to a depth of 97% in 2012; minimum brightness occurred in April 2012...
Using astrometric, photometric and optical spectroscopy data from ESA’s Gaia mission and the 2MASS survey, astronomers have discovered a large, populous,...
A team of radio astronomers using CSIRO’s Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) has mapped the entire area of the Stellar Continuum Originating from Radio...
Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa, an astronomer from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst has...
A team of astrophysicists from the United States and Korea has created a new dark-matter distribution map using a neural network-based deep learning method...
Astronomers the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) on ESO’s Very Large Telescope have observed UGC 10738, a nearby, edge-on Milky Way-like galaxy,...
Astronomers using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) have discovered 201 pulsars, including currently the faintest pulsars...
Recent results based on data from ESA’s Gaia mission have revealed that the stellar content of the inner halo of our Milky Way Galaxy is dominated by...
Launched in September 1977, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft flew by Jupiter in 1979 and then Saturn in late 1980. In August 2012, it crossed the heliopause...
Dark matter with masses below 1 GeV can scatter, become captured, deposit annihilation energy, and increase the heat flow within extrasolar gas giants,...
Astronomers using data ESA’s Gaia mission and NASA’s Near Earth Object Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) have created a map of the outermost...
Astronomers using data from the eROSITA X-ray telescope aboard the Spektrum-Roentgen-Gamma (SRG) observatory have detected the largest supernova remnant...
In a study published in the journal Science Advances, a team of European astronomers shows that water can be delivered to a terrestrial planet in the form...
Sagittarius A East (Sgr A East), a supernova remnant located strikingly close to the central supermassive black hole of our Milky Way Galaxy, resulted...
Using CSIRO’s Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) and background radio galaxies, astronomers have spotted a long cloud of cold hydrogen...
KIC 8462852, a mysteriously dimming star located about 1,480 light-years away in the constellation of Cygnus, is, in fact, a binary stellar system, made...
Astronomers using with the Australian National University 1.3-m SkyMapper telescope have detected an extended dark matter halo around Tucana II, an ultrafaint...
