The Einstein Probe, using its innovative lobster-eye X-ray telescope, has captured an ultra-rare celestial event — a bright X ...

C.E, Chinese astronomers spotted a supernova and dubbed it the "guest star." The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Víctor M ...

Mercury and Saturn are neighbors in the sky, about a half a fist held upright and at arm’s length above the west-southwestern ...

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An X-ray flash coming from an unusual binary star system was recently spotted with help from the unique "Lobster eyes" on the Einstein Probe.

From star births to deaths and a party in a black hole, here are some of the reports we’ve been getting back from the ...

On 27 May 2024, astronomers using the Chinese-European Einstein Probe observed a powerful X-ray flash from a nova explosion ...

The Einstein Probe has detected powerful X-ray light from the explosion of a new star on a white dwarf. This mysterious pair ...

The Einstein Probe was launched in January 2024 to study the high-energy universe, and among its instruments is its ...

Astronomers have studied 3,600 supernovas to discover diversity in exploding white dwarf stars, a vital tool in the ...

A supernova 2.5 million years ago may have bombarded Earth with cosmic rays, mutating DNA and triggering a virus explosion in ...

The flash was spotted by the Einstein Probe’s Wide-field X-ray Telescope (WXT), which uses a novel type of design known as a ...