Astronomers from the Cosmic Dawn Center have unveiled the nature of the densest region of galaxies seen with the James...
Astronomers have captured a spectacular, ongoing collision between at least three galaxy clusters. Data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, ESA’s...
Is the Milky Way special, or, at least, is it in a special place in the universe? An international team...
Researchers using MeerKAT in South Africa have discovered nine millisecond pulsars, most of them in rare and sometimes unusual binary...
A giant diffuse tail of stars has been discovered emanating from a large, faint dwarf galaxy. The presence of a...
On Oct. 5, 2020, the rapidly rotating corpse of a long-dead star about 30,000 light years from Earth changed speeds....
Astronomers have developed a powerful technique for identifying starspots, according to research presented this month at the 241st meeting of...
Scientists have discovered the first gamma-ray eclipses from a special type of binary star system using data from NASA’s Fermi...
In 2013, Felipe Braga-Ribas and collaborators, using ground-based telescopes, discovered that Chariklo hosts a system of two thin rings. Such...
Asteroid 2023 BU is about the size of a box truck and is predicted to make one of the closest...
A new study led by a joint team at Nagoya University and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan has measured...
An array of 350 radio telescopes in the Karoo desert of South Africa is getting closer to detecting “cosmic dawn”—the...
