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 ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope hint that the universe’s first stars might not have been ordinary fusion ...

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 ...

Discover the art of crafting the perfect flying paper airplane with our step-by-step guide! In this video, learn techniques to design a paper airplane that not only soars high but glides smoothly ...

Earth’s turbulent atmosphere makes it hard to detect new planets from the ground. Astronomer Rebecca Jensen-Clem is working ...

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.

Scientists using a global array of radio telescopes have detected the universe’s lowest-mass dark object by observing how it warped light through gravitational lensing. The invisible mass, about a ...

Astronomers have achieved the first radio image of a supermassive black hole pair, using the retired Russian RadioAstron ...

The object was detected by observing how its gravity distorts light behind it. Astronomers have discovered an extremely faint ...