Recently discovered interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS have been captured using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large ...

Astronomers have detected a massive gamma-ray explosion coming from outside the galaxy. The explosion’s origins and power are baffling scientists.

The R Aquarri binary star system consists of a white dwarf that is pull material from its companion red giant star. The ...

A team of astronomers have observed an explosion in the universe unlike any ever witnessed before. The mysterious repeating ...

Called 3I/ATLAS, the object is only the third of its kind known to astronomers, and it’s likely been heading our way for ...

Astronomers have discovered a brand new type of planet outside our solar system that, even in its infancy, is already bigger than Jupiter.

An international team of astronomers, including researchers from the University of Galway, has hailed the "remarkable ...

A new kind of stellar explosion provides a novel way to probe the distant universe, according to new results published today in Nature Astronomy. Researchers from Lancaster University joined a global ...

A group of young astronomers has captured something few people ever get to see: a planet in the middle of its own creation. The discovery, made using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large ...

Astronomers have detected an explosion of gamma rays that repeated several times over the course of a day, an event unlike ...

In this latest instalment of Future Chronicles, an imagined history of future inventions, Rowan Hooper explores the advances ...

Astronomers have discovered a brand-new type of planet outside our solar system that, even in its infancy, is already bigger than Jupiter. What's more, the find represents the first clear detection of ...