Supermassive black holes pose unanswered questions for astronomers around the world, not the least of which is “How do they...
Four and a half billion years ago, our solar system was a cloud of gas and dust swirling around the...
For the first time, a phenomenon astronomers have long hoped to image directly has been captured by the NASA/ESA/CSA James...
In late 2019, the previously unremarkable galaxy SDSS1335+0728 suddenly started shining brighter than ever before. To understand why, astronomers have...
A team of scientists used the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to parse the composition of the Crab Nebula, a...
Astronomers believe that at the heart of most, if not all, galaxies sits a titanic black hole with a mass...
In a discovery that challenges the conventional understanding of cosmology, scientists at Case Western Reserve University have unearthed new evidence...
An international team of astronomers led by the University of Vienna has deciphered the formation history of young star clusters,...
Astronomers have captured what appears to be a snapshot of a massive collision of giant asteroids in Beta Pictoris, a...
It may seem like the sun is stationary while the planets in its orbit are moving, but the sun is...
Astronomers have used new data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the retired SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy) as...
“Classical Cepheids” are a type of pulsating star that rhythmically brighten and dim over time. These pulsations help astronomers measure...
