The scientists believe these results demonstrate how AI can identify rare cosmic events in time for detailed scrutiny. They ...

The new findings on exoplanet TRAPPIST-1d, published in The Astrophysical Journal on Wednesday, mirror similar results for TRAPPIST-1b and TRAPPIST-1c, which orbit closer to their red dwarf host, a ...

An ultra-short period planet is spiraling toward destruction within 31 million years. Its extreme heat and dense composition reveal a violent past. Our circumstances here on the wondrous, ...

The massive " Cosmic Horseshoe " galaxy system likely hosts a colossal black hole measuring 36 billion times the mass of our ...

Billions of light-years away, a cosmic “eye” stares back at Earth. It’s not the work of a dark lord, though the resemblance to Tolkien’s Eye of Sauron is uncanny. Instead, it’s the blazing heart of a ...

Astronomers report that the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array ( ALMA) has discovered traces of oxygen in the very ...

Using AI, astronomers discover a new type of supernova, SN 2023zkd, the strongest evidence yet of a dying star being ...

Black holes are dark, menacing objects with gravity so intense that not even light can escape, so you don’t want to mess with them. A recent discovery of one of the strangest supernovas ever observed ...

The scenario closest to the observations, the researchers determined, involved a massive dying star and a compact object such ...

"We're now entering an era where we can automatically catch these rare events as they happen, not just after the fact." ...

In the more likely scenario, a star over 30 times the mass of our Sun was orbiting a stellar-size black hole. In the year before the explosion, the two became closer and closer, until the large star ...

The exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 d intrigues astronomers looking for possibly habitable worlds beyond our solar system because it is ...