An international team of researchers has just revealed the existence of three Earth-sized planets in the binary stellar system TOI-2267 located about 190 light-years away. This discovery, published in ...

Oct. 12 (UPI) --Astronomers were surprised when the collapse of a massive star yielded a rather puny supernova. An investigation of the phenomena suggests a companion star robbed the collapsing star ...

Brief, intense flashes known as γ-ray bursts appear every day at random locations in the sky. These bursts are classified according to their duration. Short γ-ray bursts, lasting less than one second, ...

In this picture, we capture the binary in the moment where the first white dwarf has just exploded, hurtling material towards its nearby companion which is on the cusp of explosion too. This event ...

During the height of the cold war in 1967, the Vela military satellites of the United States observed mysterious flashes of gamma rays. Due to the lack of information regarding their origin, the ...

The first scientific paper based on observations performed with South Africa’s new KAT-7 radio telescope has been accepted for publication by the prestigious journal Monthly Notices of the Royal ...

We introduce new modules in the open-source PyCBC gravitational-wave astronomy toolkit that implement Bayesian inference for compact-object binary mergers. We review the Bayesian inference methods ...