With a remarkable observational campaign that involved 12 telescopes both on the ground and in space, including three European Southern...
A Neptune-sized planet denser than steel has been discovered by an international team of astronomers, who believe its composition could...
An international scientific team has revealed for the first time the magnetic field transport processes in the accretion flow of...
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has begun the study of one of the most renowned supernovae, SN 1987A (Supernova 1987A)....
Last year, Northwestern University researchers reported new observational evidence that long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) can result from the merger of...
Scientists from The University of New Mexico (UNM), and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have detected and validated two of...
Alex Filippenko is the kind of guy who brings a telescope to a party. True to form, at a soiree...
A research team led by Prof. Wang Junxian and Ph.D. students Kang Jialai from University of Science and Technology of...
Nothing can evoke an existential perspective-spiral quite like looking at an image of a galaxy. At first glance, these sublime...
Caroline Herschel, the first professional female astronomer, made contributions to astronomy that are still important to the field today. But...
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have observed a large dark spot in Neptune’s atmosphere, with an unexpected smaller...
A University of Kansas survey of a swath of the cosmos using the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed active...
