Old Telescope, New Tricks: Chasing Gravitational Waves Across the Sky
How can we track down colliding neutron stars as quickly as possible? New research shows that the nearly 20-year-old Swift Observatory might be our best bet.
An ongoing survey aims to detect bursts of radio emission associated with flares and coronal mass ejections from young Sun-like stars.
AT2024wpp is the most powerful fast blue optical transient spotted so far. What do extensive X-ray and radio observations tell us about this event?
Researchers show how preferential accretion in a merging pair of supermassive black holes can explain the unexpectedly large amplitude of the gravitational wave background.
Astrobites reports on simulations that explore whether a baby neutron star repeatedly diving into the envelope of its inflated companion star could be the cause of bumpy supernova light curves.
Researchers have investigated how solar flares might signal that they’re about to occur and whether they’ll be accompanied by an explosion of plasma.
Astrobites reports on efforts to understand how the variability of certain variable stars changes over time.
What can ultraviolet observations from Hubble tell us about the identity of Betelgeuse’s likely companion star?
JWST discovered a distant galaxy with too much nitrogen, which has led to evidence of the universe’s first stars.