An international team of researchers, among them scientists from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has confirmed the primitive...
Astronomers have spotted two ghostly Goliaths en route to a cataclysmic meeting. The newfound pair of supermassive black holes are...
A newly discovered comet could be visible to the naked eye as it shoots past Earth and the Sun in...
Little ‘hurricanes’ that form in the disks of gas and dust around young stars can be used to study certain...
In giant clusters of hundreds or thousands of galaxies, innumerable stars wander among the galaxies like lost souls, emitting a...
A scientist from Tokyo Metropolitan University has shown that large gamma-ray-emitting bubbles around the center of the Milky Way were...
Although dark matter is a central part of the standard cosmological model, it’s not without its issues. There continue to...
For the first time, astronomers have spotted an exoplanet whose orbit is decaying around an evolved, or older, host star....
Astronomers say they have solved an outstanding problem that challenged our understanding of how the universe evolved—the spatial distribution of...
It is no exaggeration to say the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) represents a new era for modern astronomy. Launched...
Webb’s picture of the month for December is dominated by NGC 7469, a luminous, face-on spiral galaxy approximately 90,000 light-years...
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea A bright flash of gamma rays...
