Astronomers have detected and traced the most distant fast radio burst ever recorded, a powerful flash of radio waves that ...

Intense flash of radio waves is more than 10bn years old and has travelled through ‘approximately 80% of cosmic history’ ...

Scientists discover unique ‘phoenix’ planet that was born from a dying star - World is made up of pieces of a dying sun, ...

A team attributed radio signals to the exoplanet Beta Pictoris b, which would be associated with auroras and a magnetic field ...

Astronomers have found what may be the first second-generation planet around a white dwarf, a Jupiter-sized gas giant that ...

NASA has selected the far-infrared space telescope mission PRIMA (PRobe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics) to move to the ...

How do professional astronomers book time on JWST or Hubble? Frank CoulterTauranga, New Zealand The opportunity to use either the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) or James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) as ...

Astronomers have found chemical evidence that indicates a second-generation planet may have formed from the remains of a dead ...

So where is the signal coming from? How powerful is Beta Pictoris b’s magnetic field?

Nature reporter Davide Castelvecchi reflects on covering the fast-moving field of astronomy honoured by the Nobel physics ...

This discovery proves that planet formation isn't just a one-time event that happens when a star is young.

Radio signals emanating from Beta Pictoris b suggest that this young and massive exoplanet has a strong magnetic field and ...