A team of astronomers has discovered the fastest optical flash of a Type Ia supernova, and reports a study in...
An international study led by Monash University astronomers focusing on an infamous star in Orion may help to shed light...
What was previously identified as a gas and dust cloud at the center of our galaxy actually consists of three...
Astronomers spying on a stellar system located dozens of lightyears from Earth have, for the first time, observed a troubling...
Exoplanets are experiencing a stratospheric rise. In the three decades since the first confirmed planet orbiting another star, scientists have...
The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) has captured an image of a planet orbiting b Centauri, a...
An international team of astronomers from Australia, the United States and Europe has for the first-time unlocked the interior structure...
This breathtaking visible-light image, taken with the Gemini South telescope, looks as though it is ready to flutter off the...
Astronomers have a model of how galaxy cluster collisions go through different stages, taking on various shapes. A blunt body...
An international team of astronomers led by researchers from the Netherlands has found no trace of dark matter in the...
Debris disks around main-sequence stars are tenuous belts of dust thought to be produced when asteroids or other planetesimals collide...
In a new study, published in the journal Nature, the researchers show that the planet, which is 31 light years...
