A cosmic heart bursts with light in new deep space astrophotographer portrait (photo)
The Heart Nebula (IC 1805) shines in the constellation Cassiopeia. (Image credit: Ronald Brecher)Astrophotographer Ronald…
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Rapid bursts of ageing are causing us to entirely rethink how we grow old
At around the age of 40, Maja Olecka’s friend suddenly found she could no longer…
Gamma-ray bursts reveal largest structure in the universe is bigger and closer to Earth than we knew: ‘The jury is still out on what it all means.’
The universe's largest structure, the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall, was already a challenge to explain…
Where do fast radio bursts come from? Astronomers tie mysterious eruptions to massive galaxies
Every day, invisible to the human eye, thousands of enigmatic flashes of cosmic energy known…
4 large incoming solar bursts could supercharge the auroras this weekend
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) has bumped up this…
Dead star ‘glitches’ could reveal the origins of fast radio bursts
Astronomers have observed powerful "glitches" in a highly magnetic neutron star, or magnetar, near the…
Radio bursts from space are exhibiting a strange ‘sad trombone’ effect
The Allen Telescope ArraySeth Shostak/SETI Institute Short, powerful bursts of radio waves from space are…
The elusive origins of long gamma-ray bursts may finally be revealed
Some of the universe's most energetic and mysterious light shows, long gamma-ray bursts, could be…
The Mystery of Cosmic Radio Bursts Gets Bright New Clues
A second study, published the same day in Science, shone more light on the mysterious…
Bursts of star formation explain mysterious brightness at cosmic dawn
When scientists viewed the James Webb Space Telescope's (JWST) first images of the universe's earliest…