Scientists are racing to learn as much as possible about the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS before it fades from view forever ...

"The biggest surprise of all was that the black hole was not located inside either of the two nuclei but in the middle. We asked ourselves: How can we make sense of this?" ...

The Māori language describes 12 distinct types of snow. Researchers are identifying them in Antarctica as part of a project ...

Very massive stars (VMSs) have had a massive impact on the formation of our universe. However, there aren't very many of them ...

Astronomers led by Simon Portegies Zwart used simulations to reconstruct how three stars were ejected from the star cluster R136, 60,000 years ago. The analysis, published in Physical Review Letters, ...

Researchers stitched together hundreds of images from the Very Large Telescope to form a breathtaking photo of a nearby ...