Using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), astronomers from Villanova University have analyzed spectroscopic observations of a nearby old nova known...
A powerful radio-wave laser, called a “megamaser”, has been observed by the MeerKAT telescope in South Africa. The record-breaking find...
Coalescing supermassive black holes in the centers of merging galaxies fill the universe with low-frequency gravitational waves. Astronomers have been...
In studying a unique class of ultra-hot exoplanets, NASA Hubble Space Telescope astronomers may be in the mood for dancing...
An international team of astronomers, including researchers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, has spotted the most...
The presence of unusually energetic gamma rays seen in some afterglows from intense gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) could be explained by...
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to...
A research team of Chinese astronomers has recently discovered 1,547 compact galaxies in the LAMOST DR9, of which 1,417 are...
Often, a spiderweb conjures the idea of captured prey soon to be consumed by a waiting predator. In the case...
With a fortuitous lineup of a massive cluster of galaxies, astronomers discovered a single star across most of the entire...
As comets approach the Sun, they release gas and dust known to astronomers as cometary activity. For comets passing near...
Scientists studying V Hydrae (V Hya) have witnessed the star’s mysterious death throes in unprecedented detail. Using the Atacama Large...
