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

Scientists may have figured out what caused one of the strangest explosions ever observed in our universe: A massive star ...

An international team of astronomers using NASA's IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer), has challenged our understanding ...

Because the jet is aimed almost directly toward Earth, its brightness is amplified “by a factor of 30 or more,” said co-author Jack Livingston. At the same time, perspective plays a trick on observers ...

This deep-space object, known as PKS 1424+240 is a type of active galaxy powered by a supermassive black hole, and it may ...

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has found a dozen dormant (or affectionately called “sleeping beauty”) galaxies, ancient ...

A team of international astronomers has unveiled a massive, previously unknown cloud of gas and dust streaming toward the ...

By Dean Murray Space scientists have discovered "cosmic grapes" that could change the understanding of how galaxies are ...

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

An international team of astronomers using the Hubble telescope has discovered an ultra-massive white dwarf formed not from a ...

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 ...

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