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 ...

By analyzing the data from the PHANGS-MUSE survey, an international team of astronomers has inspected a nuclear star cluster ...

Compelling evidence that the structure of matter surrounding supermassive black holes has changed over cosmic time has been ...

The planet formed 50 million years after the dinosaurs died, making it incredibly young in cosmic terms.

The nova eruptions come about when a white dwarf steals too much matter from a close red giant companion.

"We might lose the ability to observe about 30% of the faintest galaxies. We are at the point of starting to be able to see ...

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

Astronomers have sighted the oldest known stellar explosion, dating back to when the universe was less than a billion years ...

Located 12 billion light years away, the Alaknanda galaxy looks strikingly like the Milky Way. Its orderly spiral structure ...

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 ...