The Moons of Uranus May Hold the Key to Finding Missing Planets
We have an idea of what the solar system’s past was like: It was violent and chaotic. However,…
Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Reveals Strange Chemistry Beyond Our Solar System
This is a Hubble Space Telescope image of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. Hubble photographed the comet on July…
Bucking boycotts, prizewinning Israeli astrophysicist finds ‘Zen-like’ perspective in space
Astrophysicist Paz Biniamini from the Open University of Israel on Tuesday became the first scholar in the Ra’anana-based…
A Cannibal Star Finally Solves One of Astronomy’s Biggest Mysteries
Scientists have linked a mysterious class of repeating cosmic signals to a white dwarf star stealing material from…
NASA’s Roman Telescope Will Search 100 Million Stars for New Worlds
This infographic features artist’s concept views of our Milky Way galaxy: face-on at the left and edge-on at…
Gravitational waves confirm predicted black-hole mass gap and probe stellar nuclear physics
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New analysis reveals why Ganymede has a magnetic field when other moons do not
Ganymede has long looked like a contradiction in orbit. Jupiter’s largest moon is the only moon known to…
Rare ‘Blue Moon’ to be visible in Irish skies this weekend
A stunning Blue Moon will grace Irish skies this weekend 11:39, 28 May 2026Updated 11:46, 28 May 2026…
Astronomers may have discovered one of the rarest explosions in the universe
ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An illustration showing a neutron star and another star. By studying a supernova that…
UH astronomy alumnus honored as outstanding young scientist
Reading time: < 1 minuteGagandeep Anand A University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA) alumnus has been recognized…
Scientists listen to the ‘heart’ of our Sun – and find mysterious behaviour
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Periodic radio and X-ray emission from an accreting white dwarf binary
Hotan, A. W. et al. Australian square kilometre array pathfinder: I. System description. Publ. Astron. Soc. Aust. 38,…