Stars uncontaminated by heavier elements are thought to have formed very early in the universe, but a galaxy much later in ...

It takes a supercomputer weeks to output the properties of one stellar binary. A new study shows AI can do it in a fraction ...

The Vera Rubin telescope is poised to kick off an explosive era of discovery. "It's like old-fashioned astronomy: Find the ...

Using the world's most advanced radio telescopes, astronomers have discovered a spinning dead star so rare, strange and ...

Detailed photos from the newly operational Vera C. Rubin Observatory have revealed that the recently discovered interstellar ...

Supernovas, kilonovas, gamma-ray bursts... oh my! The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will uncover 100,000 of these ...

A team of astronomers from Rhodes University and elsewhere have investigated a sample of 104 quasars detected with the ...

When the JWST began science observations in July 2022, it flung open a whole new window on the universe. The JWST looked ...

But all of that extra attention has led to another remarkable find. As it turns out, Betegeuse isn’t alone—it actually has a ...

Unlike active galaxies that constantly pull in surrounding material, these black holes lie dormant until a star passes by.

At 225 solar masses, this gargantuan merger of two black holes challenges our thinking on these famously elusive objects.