Peeking out from behind the glare of a bright foreground star, astronomers have uncovered the most extraordinary example yet of...
New Chinese research suggests that optical variability in emission-line galaxies (ELGs) is likely caused by star-formation activity rather than the...
In the absence of direct observations of extraterrestrial life, scientists often focus on searching for biosignatures, chemical by-products of life,...
Many factors can limit the size of a group, including external ones that members have no control over. Astronomers have...
Earlier this year, astronomers were keeping tabs on data from the Zwicky Transient Facility, an all-sky survey based at the...
Astronomers on a historically ambitious and massive galaxy-mapping mission have activated more than 10,000 amateur scientists in 85 countries to...
Earlier this year, the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) was alerted after an unusual source of visible...
Leveraging the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center scientists ran 100 simulations exploring jets—narrow beams...
The youngest stars often shine in bright bursts as they consume material from surrounding disks. Newborn stars “feed” at a...
Researchers have been able to make some key determinations about the first galaxies to exist, in one of the first...
Before the COVID-19 pandemic abruptly shut down labs and sent scientists home to work, female astronomers on average published about...
Two astrophysicists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have suggested a way to observe what could be the second-closest supermassive...
