Astronomers who examined the sound waves from the Big Bang say that the Earth and the entire Milky Way could be trapped in a huge void billions of light years across. Their research, presented at the ...

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

The icy traveler, called 3I/ATLAS or Comet ATLAS, was discovered on July 1 by the NASA -funded ATLAS survey telescope in Río Hurtado, Chile. This enormous space snowball came from the direction of the ...

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

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

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

Astronomers have discovered the first evidence of a white dwarf wiped out by a double-detonation supernova, also providing ...

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 ...

“ENTs are different beasts,” study lead author and astronomer Jason Hinkle explained in an accompanying statement. “Not only are ENTs far brighter than normal tidal disruption events, but they remain ...

How Astronomers Are Saving Astronomy From Satellites — For Now Even the most powerful telescopes are in peril as orbits above Earth fill with thousands of new satellites. But scientists aren’t ...

Decades ago, astronomers estimated that “ordinary” matter (basically everything that isn’t dark matter or dark energy) makes ...

These famous astronomers bettered our understanding of the universe. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Throughout human ...