Astronomers have observed a rainbow-shaped bow shock around a nearby dead star, RXJ0528+2838. It is located 731 light-years ...

The shockwave — more specifically a bow shock — caused by the white dwarf was observed using the European Southern ...

Experts observed the white dwarf star RXJ0528+2838 through the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope, and were ...

Astronomers have discovered a galaxy cluster burning five times hotter than theoretical models predicted, just 1.4 billion ...

But can we use telescopes to detect whether any of these distant worlds also harbour life? A promising method is to analyse the gases present in the atmospheres of these planets. We now know of more ...

Those concerned that 3I/ATLAS' arrival to our solar system meant that some sort of alien invasion was imminent can breathe a ...

A dead star 730 light years away appears to be forming a powerful structure around itself — and despite their best efforts, ...

The central square image, taken with the MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, shows shock waves around the dead ...

UC Santa Cruz astronomer Alexie Leauthaud is bringing her cosmology expertise to climate action through Seed Spoon Science, a ...

"We found something never seen before and, more importantly, entirely unexpected," team leader Simone Scaringi of Durham ...