News – Page 28 – Astronomy Now

10 June 2026

Astronomers catch the faint afterglow of an extremely remote short gamma ray burst, raising new questions about stellar evolution.

Japanese telescope spots a dozen flares on a red dwarf star in Leo, including a powerful superflare.

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has started a summer road trip, skirting dangerous sand as it heads for its next target.

Researchers measure the unimaginably small jostling caused by quantum fluctuations at human scales.

Astronomers ponder the fate of a massive star in a remote dwarf galaxy that disappeared without a trace.

Launch of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has been delayed to 30 July at the earliest after a series of processing snags.

Astronomers find a supermassive black hole 8,000 times more massive than the one at the heart of the Milky Way.

The pronounced dimming of the red giant Betelgeuse likely was caused by huge star spots, not by intervening dust, researchers say.

Astronomers have found a 1.5-billion-solar-mass black hole dating back to within 700 million years of the Big Bang birth of the cosmos.

Gravity waves indicate the merger of a massive black hole and a much less massive companion that may represent a new class of objects.