Using Gamma-Ray Bursts to Probe Large Scale Structures

By Matthew Williams April 16, 2025 Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most energetic events ever observed…

How Astronomers Mapped the Interstellar Medium – And Discovered The Local Bubble

How can astronomers pierce through the interstellar fog of the Milky Way – not to study…

It’s Time to Build a Space Telescope Interferometer. This Could be the First Step

The dream of finding life on an alien Earth-like world is hampered by a number of…

April Flowers, Bring Meteor Showers: Catch the April Lyrid and Eta Aquariid Meteor Showers

If skies are clear, be sure to watch for the April Lyrid meteors this Easter weekend.…

The JWST Examines an Enigmatic, Ringed Nebula

NGC 1514 is a planetary nebula about 1500 light years away. William Herschel discovered it in…

Roadmap for Obtaining First Sample Returns from Mercury and Venus

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc April 15, 2025 How can we successfully collect and return samples from…

Supermassive black hole Ansky awakens with record-breaking X-ray flares

Astronomers initially detected enhanced optical emissions from galaxy SDSS1335+0728 in December 2019, indicating renewed activity from…

Astronomers Push Webb to its Limits to Visualize the Most Distant Galaxies Of All!

Since the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) began science operations, astronomers have observed galaxies that existed…

Andromeda’s satellite galaxies challenge the standard model

Contrary to expectations from the standard model of cosmology, the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP)…

The Most Metal Poor Stars are Living Fossils from the Beginning of the Universe

Our Sun, like all stars, is made mostly of hydrogen and helium. They are by far…