An international team of astronomers, led by SRON, has observed a sudden outburst of matter near the supermassive black hole ...

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

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 explosion ever observed, a gamma-ray burst that lasted nearly seven hours.

A nova is a massive, temporary star explosion caused when a dense white dwarf star pulls material from a nearby star, setting ...

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 ...

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

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.

Astronomers have discovered 53 new supermassive black hole-powered quasars that are blasting out jets of matter at near light ...

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

For 19-year-old Gael Gomez, the Mount Pleasant Sidewalk Astronomers has changed his life for the better. But soon, he may be ...