Watch an animation of a black hole shooting jets of particles through a "collapsing star at nearly the speed of light" and ...

Astronomers using the European Space Agency's Cheops mission have caught an exoplanet that seems to be triggering flares of ...

Tennis coach Simon Bowler was surprised to find that he felt intoxicated after just one glass of wine and the alarming ...

SiliconRepublic.com visited the EIRSAT-1 mission control at University College Dublin, just weeks before the project comes to ...

The first ever space telescope, the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 (OAO-2), was launched into the low Earth orbit in ...

The swarm enables rapid, multi-angle observations of short-lived space phenomena and improves the ability to measure polarisation, which is a key property of gamma-ray bursts that can help reveal how ...

Astronomers celebrate the University of Washington's role in building the Rubin Observatory and look forward to its future ...

In October 2022, a blast of light from deep space outshone anything humanity has ever witnessed. The gamma-ray burst, later named “The BOAT,” unleashed more energy in seconds than our sun will emit in ...

The satellite spotted a mysterious 150-second X-ray flare, named EP240414a, from a dying star 4 billion light-years away.

Although most of these radio signals emanate from deep space and are not thought to be technological in origin, the burst of ...

A groundbreaking simulation reveals how neutron star mergers forge black holes, generate gamma-ray bursts, and scatter gold ...

Caltech simulations reveal what happens when black holes collide with neutron stars—violent cracking, intense shock waves, ...