NASA Webb Finds Strongest Evidence Yet for ‘Black Hole Stars’
The complex puzzle known as little red dots has become more complete since their initial discovery by NASA’s…
Five Americans Are Among The Ten Scientists Awarded Kavli Prizes For 2026
The late Fred Kavli, founder of the Kavli Foundation, which funds the biennial Kavli Prize for outstanding research…
Magnetic Fields May Solve a Longstanding Binary Star Mystery
Visualization of gas flows around a binary protostar system calculated by ATERUI III. The gas shown in red…
Record-Breaking Black Hole Wind Blasts Through Space at 30% the Speed of Light
An artist’s impression of a quasar. The black dot in the center represents the supermassive black hole at…
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…
Astronomers Discover Two Monster Black Holes Creating a Cosmic Void as They Merge
Artistic depiction, for illustrative purposes online. Space is usually crowded at the center of a giant galaxy. Stars…
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…
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…
Insights from the Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalogue-4.0
The Innovation Platform spoke with Viola Sordini, researcher at IP2I Lyon (CNRS) and deputy spokesperson of the Virgo…
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 Discover Two Strange Dead Stars That Defy Astronomical Expectations
Two exotic white dwarf merger remnants have been found to share a striking set of unusual properties, including…