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New model created to simulate interstellar activity in our solar system and next closest, Alpha Centauri Interstellar material has been discovered in our solar system, but researchers continue to hunt for where it came from and how it got here.

TU Delft is expanding its space research capabilities with the launch of four new and upgraded Space Engineering laboratories.

Just a few months after it was launched, the spacecraft observed one of the most violent flare eruptions on the sun - from its origin to its full release.

Researchers from Freie Universität Berlin and German Aerospace Center (DLR) have built a radiometer for measuring the temperature inside lunar craters In the night February 27, 2025, C.E.T, th

The study, validated in an immersive virtual reality environment, could have potential applications in sports training, aerospace sectors and robotics.

Researchers and students from the University of Würzburg are tracking asteroids with a telescope on the Hubland Campus.

The neutrino observatory KM3Net is located in the depths of the Mediterranean Sea and measures a cosmic neutrino at the highest energies to date In the Mediterranean Sea, scientists, including astron

Soon, a new cone-shaped spacecraft will launch into space on a mission to chart the skies like never before.

By combining the four giant telescopes of the Very Large Telescope, an international team has observed the exoplanet WASP-121b with unprecedented precision, revealing one of the most extreme climates in the Galaxy. WASP-121b is one of the most studied exoplanets. Known for its extreme conditions-such as clouds of metal vapor-it belongs to the category of ultra-hot Jupiters.

Euclid, the European Space Agency telescope whose massive optical camera was designed and built by an international team led by UCL researchers, has captured a rare phenomenon known as an Einstein ring which reveals the extreme warping of space caused by a galaxy's gravity.

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.