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.

"Each new detection brings us closer to understanding the origins of complex organic chemistry in the universe — and perhaps, ...

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

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.

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

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.