Astronomers have discovered that the sun had a close encounter with two blazingly hot massive stars around 4.4 million years ...

Astronomers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have helped uncover new clues about the longest-lasting cosmic ...

“The fact that we can now watch stars explode and immediately see the structure of the material being blasted into space is ...

Astronomers have uncovered clues to a red giant’s chaotic past by detecting subtle stellar vibrations that hint at a long-ago collision and an unexpectedly rapid spin. Astronomers at the (IfA) have pi ...

After decades of searching, astronomers may have finally stumbled upon the first moon known to exist beyond our solar ...

An international team led by the University of Oxford has identified one of the largest rotating structures ever reported: a ...

Astronomers capture the twinkle of a distant quasar, RX J1131, and reveal the secret size of a black hole's fiery corona.

Chile’s Atacama Desert is one of the darkest spots on Earth, a crown jewel for astronomers who flock to study the origins of ...

A team of astronomers using a variety of ground and space-based telescopes including the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, ...

Astronomers have captured unprecedented, detailed images of two stellar explosions—known as novae—within days of their ...

Astronomers using ALMA have discovered complex organic molecules, including potential precursors to life's building blocks, in the protoplanetary disc of a young star, V883 Orionis. This finding ...

Using a worldwide network of radio telescopes including the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia, astronomers have discovered a mysterious object in the distant universe. A million times the mass of ...