The ‘Alopeke instrument has deciphered an exoplanet mystery to reveal Kepler-13b’s true form
Source of mysterious ‘fast radio burst’ revealed for the first time
“Now we can do real astrophysical analysis on the burst source and the galaxy that harbours it,” says James Cordes of Cornell University
Rare relic of the early Milky Way discovered
A fossilised remnant of our galaxy, harbouring stars of hugely different ages, has been found
How do we find exoplanets using their star’s speed?
It’s a way of finding distant worlds, so how does it work?
Exceptionally bright black hole with manners questions theory
It eats amazingly tidily and it’s way too luminous for its mass. That’s two things about the Pinwheel Galaxy’s black hole ULX-1 that could change our understanding of these high gravity objects.