A new study provides detailed insight into the most powerful explosions in the universe
Read >>For the first time astronomers, including Dr Richard Parker, of the Astrophysics Research Institute at LJMU, have caught…
Read >>More than 40,000 amateur astronomers have classified two million unidentified heavenly bodies found by the SkyMapper tel…
Read >>A team of five astronomers from Chalmers University of Technology have revealed an extremely powerful magnetic field, be…
Read >>The galaxy highlighted in the study, known as IRAS F11119+3257, has an actively growing supermassive black hole at its c…
Read >>New research provides revelations about the most energetic event in the universe — the merging of two spinning, orbiting…
Read >>In 1670 a new star appeared in the sky, which could even be seen with the naked eye. It was not a nova, but a much rarer…
Read >>The paper outlines how interactions between particles emitted by a black hole can reveal information about what lies wit…
Read >>Elliptical galaxies form when at least two disk galaxies collide with each other and coalesce. Unusual things may happen…
Read >>By combining observations of the distant universe made with telescopes in Arizona as well as the European Space Agency's…
Read >>Long before Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars formed, it seems that the inner solar system may have harbored a number of s…
Read >>More than a million young stars are forming in a hot, dusty cloud of molecular gases in a tiny galaxy near our own, an i…
Read >>An international team of astronomers has found a huge and ancient black hole which was powering the brightest object ear…
Read >>A handful of new stars are born each year in the Milky Way, while many more blink on across the universe. But astronomer…
Read >>A team of astronomers from the University of Cambridge have identified nine new dwarf satellites orbiting the Milky Way,…
Read >>Some of the galaxies in our universe are veritable star nurseries. For example, our own Milky Way produces, on average,…
Read >>A report published in Science has dismissed claims made last year that the first super-Earth planet discovered in the ha…
Read >>New research by UCLA physicists, published in the journal Physical Review Letters, offers a possible solution to the mys…
Read >>The galaxy cluster is so large that its gravity bends and intensifies the light from the supernova, which resides roughl…
Read >>A group of astronomers from the US, Europe, Chile and South Africa have determined that 70,000 years ago a recently disc…
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