Names are a strange thing in astronomy. Sometimes scientists come up with grandiose, simple name, like the Extremely Large ...

Stars often die with a final burst of beauty. For the first time, astronomers have captured visual proof that a star can ...

Aster G. Taylor is a Ph.D. candidate in Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a 2023 Fannie ...

Newfound interstellar object 3I/ATLAS may be carrying pristine material from early in the Milky Way’s star-forming history.

The community of experts in astronomy works tirelessly in the shadows, with the aim of providing answers that, until now, have escaped human control. Many aspects are still unknown ...

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

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

"Astronomers may have just discovered the third interstellar object passing through the Solar System!" the agency's ...

A NASA satellite that’s been orbiting as space junk since 1967, Relay 2, emitted an unexpected, powerful radio burst that ...

ENTs occur when stars that are at least three times as massive as the Sun pass so close to a supermassive black hole that its colossal gravity shreds them to pieces. The resulting string of matter ...

Overall, the citizen scientists identified 10,001 eclipsing binary pairs. Of those, 7,936 were previously unknown.

Women and ethnic minority groups are still significantly underrepresented in astronomy and geophysics despite attempts to ...