Astronomy

Exploring one of science’s most exciting frontiers, the book “Life in Space” bridges astrophysics and biology to uncover the conditions that make life possible—on Earth and beyond. Designed for students and general readers alike, it […]

Using ESA’s XMM-Newton satellite, European astronomers have observed ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) in the galaxy NGC 4631. As a result, they detected a new pulsating ULX, which received the designation X-8. The research is published […]

Astronomers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have discovered that the famous Pleiades star cluster, the “Seven Sisters” often spotted on winter nights, is just the bright tip of a much larger […]

The discovery of a superheated star factory that forms stars 180 times faster than our own Milky Way could help solve a long-standing puzzle about how galaxies grew so quickly in the early universe.This post […]

Astronomers have conducted multiwavelength observations of a recently detected fast X-ray transient designated EP241107a. Results of the observational campaign, published November 4 on the arXiv preprint server, shed more light on the nature of this […]

Space dust provides more than just awe-inspiring pictures like the Pillars of Creation. It can provide the necessary materials to build everything from planets to asteroids. But what it actually looks like, especially in terms […]

The interstellar object known as 3I/ATLAS just flew past Mars, and China’s Tianwen-1 mission managed to snap some pics with its high-resolution camera. According to the China National Space Agency (CNSA), the orbiter’s high-resolution camera […]

Before atomic elements came together, less than a second after the Big Bang, if particles condensed into halos of matter, these halos may then have collapsed, creating the first black holes, boson stars, and so-called […]

The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) celebrates 20 years of observing the sky. SALT is the largest optical telescope in the southern hemisphere. It’s been steadily revealing new science knowledge, ranging from the discovery of […]

In 2023, astronomers detected a huge collision. Two unprecedentedly massive black holes had crashed an estimated 7 billion light-years away. The enormous masses and extreme spins of the black holes puzzled astronomers. Black holes like […]