We Asked Astronomers What Their Favorite Thing in Space Is

Even astronomers who study peculiar outer space objects have their favorites. Here are some interstellar bodies that have won ...
New Scientist

A black hole fell into a star – then ate its way out again

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

Record-breaking gamma ray burst seems to be caused by a black hole engulfed by a bloated star

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

Physicists proposed beat patterns in pulsars could reveal origins of Nanohertz gravitational waves

Physicists proposed “beat” patterns in pulsar timing can reveal nanohertz gravitational wave sources, including supermassive ...
Securities.io

Einstein Telescope: The Next Wave in Gravity Science

We previously covered such “gravity telescopes” with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the Kamioka Gravitational Wave Detector (KAGRA). These early 2 nd generation of ...

This Young Star Has Scientists Rethinking Current Planet Formation Models, Here's Why

We thought we understood planets, but the planetary disk chemistry of far-away XUE 10 is completely changing our conception ...
Space on MSN

White Dwarf Star's Mass Measured Using Hubble And Gravitational Microlensing

The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to determine the mass of white dwarf star LAWD 37. It is "56 percent the mass of our ...

Astronomers uncover collisional signature of filamentary structures in galactic G34 molecular cloud

Using CO (J=1–0) molecular line data obtained from the 13.7-meter millimeter-wave telescope at the Purple Mountain ...
Earth.com

Astronomers release the largest catalog of black hole mergers to date

The GWTC 4.0 catalog records 128 new gravitational wave signals, revealing mergers of black holes and neutron stars detected by LIGO.