While ESA’s satellite INTEGRAL was observing the sky, it spotted a burst of gamma-rays—high-energy photons—coming from the nearby galaxy M82....
Astronomers have identified the most massive stellar black hole yet discovered in the Milky Way galaxy. This black hole was...
From house plants and gardens to fields and forests, green is the color we most associate with surface life on...
Using new observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered methane emission on a brown dwarf, an...
When faraway stars explode, they send out flashes of energy called gamma-ray bursts that are bright enough that telescopes back...
Although their primary purpose is to look for exoplanets, observatories like the Kepler Space Telescope and the Transiting Exoplanet Survey...
The universe’s early galaxies were less chaotic and developed much faster than previously thought, according to new research looking back...
If you want to know where elements come from, look to the stars. Almost every element heavier than helium is...
Scientists at the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) and their international collaborators have recently developed...
Like boulders, rocks, and pebbles scattered across a landscape, asteroids come in a wide range of sizes. Cataloging asteroids in...
A nearby supernova in 2023 offered astrophysicists an excellent opportunity to test ideas about how these types of explosions boost...
In October 2022, an international team of researchers, including Northwestern University astrophysicists, observed the brightest gamma-ray burst (GRB) ever recorded,...