What do you do when a tried-and-true method for determining the sun’s chemical composition appears to be at odds with...
Nearly half of sun-size stars are binary. According to University of Copenhagen research, planetary systems around binary stars may be...
An international group of astronomers, led by a physicist at the University of St Andrews, has revived an alternative gravity...
As NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope moves through the final phases of commissioning its science instruments, we have also begun working on...
Completing a nearly 30-year marathon, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has calibrated more than 40 “milepost markers” of space and time...
Using tens of thousands of stars observed by the Gaia space probe, astronomers from MPIA and Chalmers have revealed the...
Michigan State researchers have helped peer inside a nova—a type of astrophysical nuclear explosion—without leaving Earth. These stellar events help...
Imagine walking through a dense, hazy fog in the middle of the night, seeing patches of light from cars and...
During the first billion years of the universe, winds blown by supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies were...
A quadruple star system discovered in 2017 and recently observed at the University of Canterbury Mt. John Observatory could represent...
At simultaneous press conferences around the world, including at a National Science Foundation-sponsored press conference at the U.S. National Press...
On May 12, 2022, astronomers on the Event Horizon Telescope team released an image of a black hole called Sagittarius...
