January 8 was also the day David turned 69, a milestone marked by a tribute night in Cork – and a whole weekend of birthday ...

In this case, RXJ0528+2838 is orbited by a still-living star similar in size to our sun. In such cases, material from the ...

"We found something never seen before and, more importantly, entirely unexpected," team leader Simone Scaringi of Durham ...

Gamma rays are invisible and ultra-powerful forms of light. They are the most energetic source of radiation known in the ...

As stars move through space, they push away material and create a so-called bow shock ahead of them akin to a curved ridge of ...

Astronomers have spotted one of the oldest "dead" galaxies yet identified, and found that a growing supermassive black hole ...

Gas and dust flowing from stars can, under the right conditions, clash with a star's surroundings and create a shock wave.

Hundreds of people who gathered to remember murdered school teacher Ashling Murphy heard how a fund set up in her memory has ...

More information about a mysterious, energetic burst, formally known as a gamma-ray burst (GRB), spotted in space 13 billion ...

The gravitational lens JVAS B1938+666 consists of massive bodies ranging from 6.5 billion to 11 billion light-years away, ...

Elon Musk and Twitter continue to defend Grok generating sexualized deepfakes and CSAM, but some countries are enforcing bans ...

Natasha Lyonne and Wanda Sykes also wore the pins to honour Renee Nicole Good and protest against her death after the 37-year ...