An international team of astronomers, co-led by researchers at the University of Galway, has made the unexpected discovery of a...
Astronomers at Leiden University have detected rare isotopes of carbon and oxygen in our neighboring stars for the first time,...
For decades, astronomers have wondered what the very first stars in the universe were like. These stars formed new chemical...
Supernovae appear to our eyes—and to astronomical instruments—as brilliant flashes that flare up in the sky without warning, in places...
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured the best picture yet of a high-speed comet visiting our solar system from another...
Astronomers have discovered a remarkably clumpy rotating galaxy that existed just 900 million years after the Big Bang, shedding new...
In a study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, an international team of astronomers has uncovered for the first time the...
Black holes are massive, strange and incredibly powerful astronomical objects. Scientists know that supermassive black holes reside in the centers...
During a solar eclipse, astronomers who study heliophysics are able to study the Sun’s corona – its outer atmosphere –...
Outdoor lighting for buildings, roads and advertising can help people see in the dark of night, but many astronomers are...
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a team of astronomers led by Abubakar Fadul from the Max Planck Institute...
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have teamed up to identify a new possible example of a...
