Hundreds of papers have been written about the first known brown dwarf, Gliese 229B, since its discovery by Caltech researchers...
A rare, extremely luminous X-ray outburst has been observed in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that is a...
A quasar is the extremely bright core of a galaxy that hosts an active supermassive black hole at its center....
A team of physicists from the universities of Amsterdam, Princeton and Oxford have shown that extremely light particles known as...
Modern astronomy has clung to the belief that the relativistic outflows or jets, responsible for the existence of electromagnetic radiation...
Hubble captures intricacies of R Aquarii, a symbiotic binary star roughly 700 light-years from Earth
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has provided a dramatic and colorful close-up look at one of the most rambunctious stars...
The background noise of gravitational waves from orbiting white dwarf stars will be stronger than the noise from binary black...
Astronomers have used data from the European Gaia Space Telescope to discover 55 high-speed stars launched from the young star...
Astronomers have observed Jupiter’s legendary Great Red Spot (GRS), an anticyclone large enough to swallow Earth, for at least 150...
The human mind may find it difficult to conceptualize: a cosmic cloud so colossal it surrounds the Sun and eight...
Astronomers have used the NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe the ‘inside-out’ growth of a galaxy in the...
Reionization is a critical period when the first stars and galaxies changed the physical structure of their surroundings, and eventually...
