The recent burst, called FRB 20240209A, throws that theory into question. Now, astronomers must consider that not all fast radio bursts come from younger galaxies and stars. The powerful burst was ...

Credit: ESO/L. Calçada When astronomers first spotted WASP-127b in 2016, the exoplanet's strange composition intrigued them. With a radius larger than Jupiter's but less than a fifth of the ...

Astronomers first spotted the asteroid on August 7 using the South Africa-based observatory of the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS. Despite predictions that the ...

Astronomers have detected winds howling at about 20,500 miles (33,000 km) per hour on this large gaseous planet, located in our Milky Way galaxy approximately 520 light-years from Earth in a tight ...

Using the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) and the Apache Point Observatory (APO), an international team of astronomers has detected 19 pulsation modes in an ultra-massive white dwarf known as WD ...

A new simulation suggests how it ended up there. Astronomers zoomed in on a stellar behemoth in the Larger Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy that orbits about 160,000 light-years from the Milky Way.

Related: Wild solar weather is causing satellites to plummet from orbit As of Jan. 30, 2025, there are 6,994 Starlink satellites in orbit, of which 6,957 are working, according to Astronomer ...

Now is a perfect time to buy, too. January 29th's new moon doesn't just signal the start of the Chinese New Year, it's an absolute gift for astronomers. Why? Because without the moon's reflective ...

Jan. 21, 2025 — Astronomers previously thought all FRBs were generated by magnetars formed through the explosions of very young, massive stars. But new FRB is pinpointed to the outskirts of 11.3 ...

An international team of astronomers has detected mysterious chirping signals in an unexpected region of space, raising major questions about how they're created. Known as chorus waves, these signals ...

Jan. 29, 2025 — New research has combined cosmological data from two major surveys of the universe's evolutionary history and found hints that it may be less clumpy at certain points than ...

Keya's "Khawna Jaal" is also as realistic as a photo, depicting a fisherman at work. The comparatively smaller paintings display the conventional rural scenes of our country. These are not hyper ...