Astronomy

The most sensitive search to date for a persistent radio source associated with an extremely bright, non-repeating fast radio burst (FRB) has yielded no results, significantly narrowing the range of possible explanations for these mysterious […]

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has captured the motion of spirals of dust around a young star and shown that the winding motion of the spiral pattern is conducive to planet formation. This provides […]

Astronomers report the discovery of a rare nova super-remnant surrounding the recurrent nova LMCN 1971-08a in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). This is the first nova super-remnant identified in the LMC. The findings are detailed […]

A NASA mission to study the heliosphere—the sun’s magnetic bubble that shields our solar system—and develop a better understanding of space weather was launched from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center along Florida’s Atlantic coast on […]

An international collaboration of astronomers, including researchers from the University of Toronto, have detected the brightest Fast Radio Burst (FRB) to date—and have been able to pinpoint its location in a nearby galaxy by using […]

A new article published in The Astrophysical Journal explores a new theory of how Type Ia supernovae, the powerful stellar explosions that astronomers use to measure distances across the universe, might be triggered. Traditionally, these […]

What is the meaning of life? Even the best of us couldn’t hope to answer that question in a Universe Today article. But there are those who would try to “constrain” it, at least in […]

Exoplanets aren’t the only objects floating around other stars—they likely have comets and asteroids as well. Even some of the exoplanets themselves will have “exomoons,” at least according to our current understanding of the physics […]

Researchers from The University of Western Australia node at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have uncovered an immense structure, which spans an astonishing 185,000 light-years between galaxies NGC 4532 and DDO 137, […]

An international team of astronomers has performed photometric and spectroscopic observations of a compact stellar system around a nearby spiral galaxy known as NGC 7531. Results of the observational campaign, published September 17 on the […]