This bump in radiation indicates that something is heating and contaminating the planet’s upper atmosphere from the outside.
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), of which ESO is a partner, astronomers have discovered a large reservoir of hot gas in the still-forming galaxy cluster around the ...
On the morning of October 9, 2022, multiple space-based detectors picked up a powerful gamma-ray burst (GRB) passing through our Solar System, sending astronomers around the world scrambling to ...
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Astronomers have at last identified what ... galaxies are revolving around it. Right now, about 60 are known to surround the Milky Way, but the expectation is that this new discovery will ...
Astronomers are becoming increasingly concerned about light pollution in the night sky caused by the growing number of satellites, and also space junk, in low-Earth orbit. Sunlight reflecting off ...
One of the largest black holes ever recorded has been discovered using a new technique that could spot thousands more of the insatiable celestial monsters in the coming years, according to astronomers ...
Using AstroSat and NuSTAR space telescopes, astronomers have observed an X-ray binary known as XTE J1739−285 during its recent period of bursting activity. Results of the observational campaign ...
The first scientific results are coming in, and the $10 billion instrument is working even better than astronomers had dared to hope. Saturn’s largest moon came under the gaze of NASA’s ...
Astronomers have discovered a large reservoir of hot gas in the still-forming galaxy cluster around the Spiderweb galaxy -- the most distant detection of such hot gas yet. Galaxy clusters are some ...
By Oliver Whang Astronomers offer “a surprisingly simple ... Researchers reported auroras around Jupiter’s two largest Galilean moons for the first time and found new features in the auroras ...
