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.

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

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 ...

Formed around a distant star elsewhere in the Milky Way, it is an interstellar wanderer, not a merely interplanetary one.

PhoSim simulates the atmosphere, including air turbulence, as well as distortions from the shape of the telescope’s mirrors and the electrical properties of the sensors. The photons are propagated ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

The rings of Saturn glide so tranquilly when watched through a telescope, that it is easy to forget the planet sits in a ...