Officially labelled PSR J2322-2650b, this Jupiter-mass planet has been deformed into a bizarre lemon shape by the sheer, ...
Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have observed an entirely new type of exoplanet whose atmospheric ...
The new candidate, AT2025ulz, initially acted like a kilonova, only to later mystify scientists by morphing into what ...
A distant neutron star unexpectedly reawakened, unleashing a powerful X-ray surge that may reveal how the universe’s most ...
But in this case, the companion is officially considered an exoplanet, not a star. The International Astronomical Union ...
A double blast of dying stars may be the first observed case of a long-hypothesized, never proven “superkilonova.” Although ...
When the most massive stars reach the ends of their lives, they blow up in spectacular supernova explosions, which seed the ...
A small star named M82 X-2 breaks physical barriers, as NASA's NuSTAR confirms it shines 10 million times brighter than the ...
Artist’s impression of the powerful winds blowing from the bright X-ray source GX13+1. The X-rays are coming from a disc of hot matter, known as an accretion disc, that is gradually spiralling down to ...