The exceptional quasar J0529−4351. Credit: Nature Astronomy (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-024-02195-x A new study published in Nature Astronomy describes ...

A distant star, dying a fiery and dramatic death, torn apart by a supermassive black hole in a forgotten corner of the sky. One of the most luminous, energetic, long-lasting transient objects didn’t ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has identified GLASS-z13, a galaxy potentially dating back 13.5 billion years, making it a candidate for the oldest and most distant galaxy observed, surpassing ...

Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have stumbled upon a puzzling population of galaxies that look far too bright for their age. In four patches of sky, covering more than 500 square ...

Philip Wiseman works at the University of Southampton and is funded by the Science and Technology Facilities Council. A new study published in Nature Astronomy describes the most luminous object ever ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Astronomers have found a cataclysmic event in space involving a massive black hole that is ripping apart a star. The event, dubbed “Scary Barbie,” is among the brightest ...

Dark stars are theoretical, extremely luminous objects from the early universe, posited to be powered not by nuclear fusion but by the annihilation of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), a ...

A mysterious, luminous object has appeared in the night sky over Seattle on Tuesday, leading some locals to question its origin. "I swear i just saw a spacecraft over Seattle," Twitter user ...

One of the most important gaps in our understanding of our Universe’s history is the “Cosmic Dawn.” The period from about 50 million years to one billion years after the Big Bang when the first stars, ...

Sirius A and B, a normal (Sun-like) star and a white dwarf star in a binary system. Many such systems like this are known to exist, and the accretion of matter from the star onto the white dwarf is ...

Working the night shift can be pretty boring, even if you’re a telescope. You stare at the same section of sky for hours. Every night, you take in light from the same distant points in the abyss.