Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.

Astronomers tracked a decade of dramatic changes in P13, a neutron star undergoing supercritical accretion. Its X-ray ...

Astronomers have confirmed a giant planet orbiting a tightly bound pair of young stars, marking a first in direct exoplanet imaging. The planet, known as HD 143811 AB b, is the closest-in world ever ...

New Chandra X-ray study finds many dwarf galaxies may not host central massive black holes, challenging long-held assumptions about galaxy formation and black hole origins ...

Scientists have discovered a massive, rotating galactic filament stretching about 50 million light-years across, containing roughly 300 galaxies that are all spinning ...

With that in mind, you can imagine how surprised scientists were when their instruments detected a gamma ray burst that occurred three times in one day. A single burst should completely destroy the ...

The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS displays a rare sunward 'anti-tail', prompting detailed scientific scrutiny as astronomers ...

New observations suggest that the relationship between light emitted by quasars has changed over cosmic time, hinting that ...

The meteor shower is known for being bright and colorful. And this year, the peak will happen this weekend, giving more ...

NASA's Roman Space Telescope will soon map our Milky Way galaxy in infrared. This mission will reveal billions of stars and hidden galactic structures ...

By studying faint distortions in galaxy shapes across a vast region of sky, scientists probed the hidden structure of the universe. In the standard picture of the universe, nearly everything is hidden ...

BASED on findings published in Astronomy & Astrophysics in December and further reported by Keith Cooper for Space.com, ...