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...
A group of dead stars known as “spider pulsars” are obliterating companion stars within their reach. Data from NASA’s Chandra...
It first appeared as a glowing blob from ground-based telescopes and then vanished completely in images from the Hubble Space...
Imagine you’re a farmer searching for eggs in the chicken coop – but instead of a chicken egg, you find...
An international team of astronomers have used the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to provide the first observation of water...
To their surprise, an international team of researchers has discovered a giant and extremely faint stream of stars between galaxies....
Cutting-edge computer simulations combined with theoretical calculations are helping astronomers better understand the origin of some of the universe’s most...
For nearly fifty years, astronomers have come up empty-handed in their search for stars within the sprawling structure known as...
