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...
To better understand observations of the most distant galaxies, an international team of astronomers has built a sample of local...
For the first time, astronomers have captured images that show a star consuming one of its planets. The star, named...
A mysterious trail of stars formed eight thousand million years ago and recently discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope has...
Astronomers used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to image the warm dust around a nearby young star, Fomalhaut, in order...
Astronomers have revealed new evidence about the properties of the giant bubbles of high-energy gas that extend far above and...
With a single letter seemingly etched in the X-ray glow around it, a giant black hole at the center of...
The young star TW Hydrae is playing “shadow puppets” with scientists observing it with NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. In 2017,...
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), researchers have found, for the first time, the fingerprints left by the explosion of...
By studying countless stars at various stages of their evolution, astronomers have been able to piece together an understanding of...
The famous first image of a black hole just got two times sharper. A research team used artificial intelligence to...
