Imagine an Earth-sized planet that’s not at all Earth-like. Half this world is locked in permanent daytime, the other half...
The work of an international team of astronomers has resulted in the announcement of 62 new moons of Saturn, catapulting...
After 15 years of attempts, researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have for the first time successfully detected...
Astronomers have described the first radiation belt observed outside our solar system, using a coordinated array of 39 radio dishes...
Astronomers have found that supermassive black holes obscured by dust are more likely to grow and release tremendous amounts of...
More than a hundred blazars—distant and active galaxies with a central supermassive black hole that drives powerful jets—have been newly...
An international team of astronomers including several Dutch researchers has observed, for the first time, the benzene molecule (C6H6) in...
Using ESO’s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA), astronomers have created a vast infrared atlas of five nearby...
A new study sheds light on the bright outbursts of radiation that are created when a star is destroyed by...
A team of astronomers led by the University of Southampton has uncovered the largest cosmic explosion ever witnessed. The explosion...
Thanks to data from a magnified, multiply imaged supernova, a team led by University of Minnesota Twin Cities researchers has...
For more than a decade, astronomers have been trying to get a closer look at GJ 1214b, an exoplanet 40...
