In December 2024, astronomers watched a star around 25 times the mass of our sun die in a blaze of glory. Located one billion light-years from Earth, SN 2024afav was a prime example of a superluminous ...

Astronomers have for the first time seen the birth of a magnetar—a highly magnetized, spinning neutron star—and confirmed that it's the power source behind some of the brightest exploding stars in the ...

A new study explains how some supernovas are particularly dazzling—the glow from a magnetic, spinning ball of neutrons called a magnetar. An assist from Einstein is what settled the case ...

Astronomers using the Very Large Telescope study faint brown dwarfs in the RCW 36 nebula to understand substellar populations and the initial mass function in a young massive cluster.

A small, round piece of asteroid Ryugu (sample #91), called “S-lunar,” contains tiny particles (less than 1 mm) that will allow planetary scientists to study the magnetic signature of the early solar ...

A mesmerizing cosmic scene has recently been captured by theVery Large Telescope (VLT), revealing the RCW 36 nebula, which appears to resemble a cosmic hawk with its outstretched wings. This ...

J.-C. Cuillandre & E. Bertin (CEA Paris-Saclay), Z. Tsvetanov This new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features one of ...

“Our findings suggest that Jupiter’s moons did not form as chemically pristine worlds,” Mousis said. “Instead, they may have accreted, or accumulated, a significant inventory of COMs at birth, ...

New research suggests that Jupiter’s icy moons may have formed with complex organic molecules already embedded in their building blocks.

Astronomers are rethinking what looks like the Milky Way’s quieter neighborhood, as new analysis of nearby gas clouds points to a more intense kind of star birth than the Gum Nebula’s faint glow ...

A Strictly Come Dancing star has spoken out about fake AI-generated images falsely claiming that his partner has had a baby. Joe Sugg and Dianne Buswell, who met on the BBC dancing competition in 2018 ...

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