In the last few years, papers published by the Vanishing & Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations (VASCO) project ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Einstein Probe (EP) space telescope, sent into space in January by China, has identified a transient celestial object ...

Transient and explosive astronomical phenomena constitute a research area focused on short-lived, high-energy events in the universe, such as supernovae, gamma-ray bursts, tidal disruption events, ...

The Moon’s surface sometimes flickers with sudden flashes of light, brief glows and color changes that have puzzled astronomers for centuries. These so‑called transient lunar phenomena have long sat ...

The Science White Paper for the Einstein Probe (EP) mission has been published in Science China: Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy. This mission, spearheaded by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in ...

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Four years ago, a green “ghost” appeared over a thunderstorm cloud in the Mediterranean Sea. To the delight of Spanish scientists, this ephemeral sighting finally offered a rare window into a ...

For the first time, astronomers have traced a fast radio burst (FRB) to the outskirts of an ancient, dead, elliptical galaxy—an unprecedented home for a phenomenon previously associated with much ...