A team led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics discovered the most distant known fossil galaxy — a relic of ...

Using NuSTAR and XMM-Newton satellites, astronomers from New York University (NYU) Abu Dhabi have observed a pulsar known as ...

Astronomers manning an asteroid warning system caught a glimpse of a large, bright object zipping through the solar system ...

Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Washington used some fancy technology (WMAP data on the cosmic microwave ...

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...

New research is shedding light on what researchers call "lite" intermediate-mass black holes, which are smaller, but still ...

Astronomers in Hawaiʻi detected the solar system's third interstellar object, C/2025 N1 or 3I/ATLAS, which poses no threat to ...

"This tangible evidence of a double detonation not only contributes towards solving a long-standing mystery, but also offers ...

Astronomers have finally caught a dying star in space going out with a bang — and then another bang. The new photographic ...

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

Only a few dozen of these short-lived binaries exist in the galaxy at a time, making the serendipitous find extremely ...

New observations show a star that blew up in two separate bursts, confirming a long-suspected cosmic phenomenon called a ...