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Imperial's Professor Tim Horbury and Helen O'Brien are celebrating the impact of the Solar Orbiter as they mark five years since it first launched.

An international space mission currently mapping the dark Universe has discovered a rare 'Einstein Ring' in a galaxy not far away.

Three months after its launch, the Einstein Probe detected an unusual event unlike anything other X-ray probes had seen before. Now, a new study led by Carnegie Mellon University suggests that the powerful burst of high-energy radiation was either a rare jetted tidal disruption event or, perhaps, an entirely new type of astronomical phenomenon.

South Africa's MeerKAT telescope has revealed a remarkable cosmic discovery-Inkathazo, a newly identified giant radio galaxy (GRG), whose name means trouble in isiZulu and isiXhosa.

New analysis of marsquakes, which are similar to earthquakes, could offer clues into how Mars has evolved over billions of years, according to new research from The Australian National University (ANU) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory used radar data taken by ESA's Sentinel-1A satellite before and after the 2015 eruption of the Calbuco volcano in Chile to create this interferogram showing land deformation.

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapping space mission Gaia, which involves UCL researchers, has completed its sky-scanning phase, racking up more than three trillion observations of two billion stars and other objects over a decade to revolutionise our view of the galaxy.

In the decades following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope , astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe.

Gaia, the European Space Agency (ESA) satellite that maps the Milky Way, has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, in which it has accumulated more than three trillion observations of some

The discovery of two new planets beyond our solar system by a team of astronomers from The University of Warwick and the University of Geneva (UNIGE), is challenging scientific understanding of how planetary systems form.

Researchers at a Scottish university have taken one small step towards a future where orbital factories can 3D print future tech on demand in space.

An effort to find some of the biggest, most active black holes in the universe provides a better estimate for the ratio of hidden to unhidden behemoths. Multiple NASA telescopes recently helped scientists search the sky for supermassive black holes - those up to billions of times heavier than the Sun.

Their source could be the core of a dead star that's teetering at the black hole's edge, MIT astronomers report. One supermassive black hole has kept astronomers glued to their scopes for the last several years. First came a surprise disappearance, and now, a precarious spinning act. The black hole in question is 1ES 1927+654, which is about as massive as a million suns and sits in a galaxy that is 270 million light-years away.

An international team of physicists, led in the UK by our Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy, has discovered over 40 previously unknown stars. The team made the discovery when studying the distant Dragon Arc galaxy, using observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The Dragon Arc is located behind a massive cluster of galaxies called Abell 370.

The University of Geneva coordinates the participation of Swiss institutions in the CTAO project, which addresses the most fascinating questions of high-energy astrophysics.

On November 8, astronomers at Caltech's Palomar Observatory in the mountains above San Diego directed a brand-new spectrograph instrument to capture data from a newfound supernova.

Earth-observation satellites deliver data for a wealth of applications - from monitoring climate change and documenting war crimes to planning disaster relief and assessing snow depth.

An equal collaboration between NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation, NISAR will offer unprecedented insights into Earth's constantly changing land and ice surfaces using synthetic aperture radar technology.

Parker Solar Probe makes history with closest-ever approach to the sun On Dec.

MIT community members made headlines with key research advances and their efforts to tackle pressing challenges.

Instead of a winter wonderland, the Red Planet's northern hemisphere goes through an active - even explosive - spring thaw.

Scientists have spotted a massive black hole in the early universe that is 'napping' after stuffing itself with too much food. Like a bear gorging itself on salmon before hibernating for the winter, or a much-needed nap after Christmas dinner, this black hole has overeaten to the point that it is lying dormant in its host galaxy.

Survey of 26,000 dead stars confirms key details of extreme stellar behavior A study of more than 26,000 white dwarf stars has confirmed a long-predicted but elusive effect in these ultra-dense, dying stars: Hotter white dwarfs are slightly puffier than cooler ones, even when they have the same mass.

Two networks of telescopes zoom into a distant galaxy: they show, how pictures of a black hole and its jets become possible - and they confirm that there are strong magnetic fields there.