But so did the fact that the astronomers who built the observatory were all amateurs, men with day jobs who just loved to stargaze and tinker. "It's probably one of the most compelling ...

NATIONAL HARBOR, MD. — For the first time, astronomers have taken a direct look at an exoplanet’s insides. An exoplanet about 800 light-years away is spilling its guts into space, and new ...

Dead stars — or neutron stars — normally spin at breakneck speeds, but a team of astronomers has clocked the new-found star taking a leisurely six-and-a-half hours to undertake just one spin ...

A large international team of scientists has observed a phenomenon that astronomers didn't ever expect to see happen in real time. The findings are described in a new paper published in ...

In new research, we have found the slowest cosmic lighthouse yet – one that spins once every 6.5 hours. This discovery, published in Nature Astronomy, pushes the boundaries of what we thought possible ...

As Khona and Mihir, two astrologists, analyse the night sky, dancers representing the stars glide onto the stage wearing white flowy garments. Light on their feet, with their bodies flowing with their ...

Now, a group of astronomers led by Toby Rodel of the Queen's University Belfast, UK, reports the detection of a new system of this type. They detected NGTS-EB-7 AB—a low-mass eclipsing binary ...

But in recent years, astronomers have begun to find compact objects that emit pulses of radio waves at a much slower rate. This has baffled scientists, who had thought that radio wave flashes ...

A former leading astronomer has walked free from court with a conditional discharge despite breaching his lifelong Sexual Offences Prevention Order (SOPO) — again. Newtownards Magistrates Court ...

Yet, a century ago, its discovery by Edwin Hubble, then an astronomer at Carnegie Observatories, opened humanity's eyes as to how large the universe really is, and revealed that our Milky Way ...

One star has baffled astronomers since it was discovered in January 2024. The newly discovered neutron start has been nicknamed 'zombie star' but its official name is ASKAP J1839-0756. The star is ...