A consensus is emerging that the dots, sometimes called rubies, are an entirely new type of object in the Universe.

Scientists say breakthrough could shorten the time needed to map the Milky Way from millennia to less than a decade.

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A new study explores how eccentric warm Jupiters - giant exoplanets with unusual oval orbits - form, offering clues about the ...

For decades, astronomers have looked to the outer reaches of the cosmos for answers to our most fundamental questions: Where ...

Stars often fall into black holes, and now it seems the opposite can also occur, producing an extra long-lasting explosion as ...

On July 2, 2025, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (Fermi-GBM) captured around three hours' worth of signals that appeared ...

It was put on Webb to diagnose and measure any blur in its images. Even nanometres of distortion in Webb’s 18 hexagonal ...

Two students have engineered a fix to improve the imaging from the James Webb Space Telescope interferometer. They did this ...

Astronomers have detected one of the darkest objects ever seen at a record cosmic distance—only with the assistance of ...

Astronomers have detected a mysterious dark object in the distant universe — and its size has them fascinated.