Gases brought back from the asteroid Ryugu by Japan’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft are revealing the asteroid’s…
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JWST has taken a star-studded new image of the Pillars of Creation
The Pillars of Creation are huge towers of gas and dust where stars are born, and…
Astronomers have just watched the most powerful explosion ever seen
A gamma ray burst about 2.4 billion light years away is being called “the BOAT” –…
A black hole ate a star and belched out the remains two years later
A distant black hole shredded a star in 2018, and released a plume of plasma travelling…
Two exoplanets have a strangely heavy element floating in their skies
Astronomers have found barium floating high in the atmospheres of two sweltering exoplanets, and they don’t…
Astronomers have unveiled the world’s largest digital camera
The world’s largest digital camera for astronomy is taller than a car, has as many pixels…
Jet from neutron stars seems to travel seven times the speed of light
An optical illusion created by the relative positions of Earth and a pair of colliding neutron…
JWST has spotted bizarre rings of dust around a dying star
A strange star system with concentric rings of dust blowing out into space has been imaged…
Black holes wobbling three times a second have proved Einstein right
A pair of merging black holes show extreme signs of gravity-induced orbital precession, or wobbling, as…
NASA’s DART mission moved an asteroid's orbit by smashing into it
After the Double Asteroid Redirect Test mission slammed into the asteroid Dimorphos, it was pushed closer…