Discovery of young eclipsing binary system offers insight into early stellar evolution
WASP time-series photometry of primary eclipses of MML 48 obtained in 2006–2014. Credit: Astronomy & Astrophysics (2025). DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202555622. An...
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AI tool helps astronomers find supernovae in a sky full of noise
Dr Heloise Stevance and Professor Stephen Smartt with the Asteroid Terrestrial Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), in the Astrophysics Data...
A hungry star is eating its cosmic twin at a rate never seen before
Double star V Sagittae—10,000 light years from Earth—is burning bright because greedy white dwarf is gorging on its larger twin....
One extremophile eats Martian dirt, survives in space and can create oxygen for colonies
EXPOSE flight hardware on the outside of the ISS with dried Chroococcidiopsis exposed. Credit: Roscosmos/ESA Extremophiles are a favorite tool...
Unprecedented gamma-ray burst hints at rare black hole
The orange dot at the center of this image is a powerful explosion that repeated several times over the course...
Supermassive black holes shrouded by dust in the early universe
An artist’s impression of a dust-shrouded quasar in the early universe. Credit: NAOJ Astronomers have discovered "dust-shrouded supermassive black holes"...
Using pulsar accelerations to detect a dark matter sub-halo in the Milky Way for the first time
Posterior distribution showing derived properties of a dark matter sub-halo. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2507.16932 Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, the Pei-Ling...
Experiment questions ocean origin of organics
An artist's impression of plumes erupting onto the surface of Enceladus. Its fellow moon Titan is seen in the sky,...
A rocky planet in its star’s ‘habitable zone’ could be first known to have an atmosphere—here’s what we found
Our star-corrected JWST transmission spectrum of Trappist-1e’s atmosphere which could either be fit by the blue wiggles, suggestive of an...
White dwarf orbiting a blue straggler star detected
Drizzled ACS/SBC images in the F165LP filter of the five BSSs investigated in this study. The positions of the 5...
