Only two of the more than 5,300 known exoplanets have so far provided evidence of moons in orbit around them....
Black holes—the cosmic behemoths known for powering some of the brightest radio wave sources in the universe—were the focal point...
Astronomers have observed, for the first time in three dimensions, that gas from spiral galaxies is blown upward and downward...
Our sun actively produces solar flares that can impact Earth, with the strongest flares having the capacity to cause blackouts...
As far as the eye can see, galaxies fill the images of the deep universe. What processes determined their shapes,...
A Dutch-led international team of astronomers has made the first two-dimensional inventory of ice in a planet-forming disk of dust...
Through analysis of high-resolution data from a 10-meter telescope in Hawaii, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have succeeded in...
An entirely new way to probe how active black holes behave when they eat has been discovered by an international...
Scientists have discovered a rare sight in a nearby star system: Six planets orbiting their central star in a rhythmic...
An international team of astronomers led by Durham University and including astronomers at the UK Astronomy Technology Center has reported...
A cornerstone but surprising prediction arising from Einstein’s theory of general relativity is the existence of black holes, which astronomers...
Three astronomers from the Netherlands have proven that gas that was previously heated near a supermassive black hole flowed to...
