Guessing your age might be a popular carnival game, but for astronomers it’s a real challenge to determine the ages...
While investigating 16 years of images of young stars from a retired astronomical camera, Leiden master’s student Sam de Regt...
Galaxies start life with their stars rotating in an orderly pattern but in some the motion of stars is more...
A new image from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration—which includes scientists from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard &...
For the first time, astronomers have measured the speed of fast-moving jets in space, crucial to star formation and the...
Stars like the Sun are remarkably constant. They vary in brightness by only 0.1% over years and decades, thanks to...
New analysis reveals a tiny black hole repeatedly punching through a larger black hole’s disk of gas
At the heart of a far-off galaxy, a supermassive black hole appears to have had a case of the hiccups....
Planets form in disks of dust and gas called protoplanetary disks that whirl around a central protostar during its final...
A team of astronomers led by the University of Victoria and Yale University has detected an ancient star system traveling...
NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft, headed to Jupiter’s ice-covered moon Europa in October 2024, will carry a laser-etched message that celebrates...
The ALMA radio telescope has detected more than 100 molecular species, including many indicative of different star formation and evolution...
A new investigation into an obscure class of galaxies known as Compact Symmetric Objects, or CSOs, has revealed that these...