The discovery is the first direct observational confirmation of a theory for how young stars feed on, and then explosively ...

Astronomers have discovered a bizarre carbon-rich planet orbiting a neutron star, PSR J2322-2650b, with soot clouds and ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was involved in yet another first discovery recently available in pre-print form on ...

Carl Sagan famously said that "We're all made of star stuff." But he didn't elaborate on how that actually happened. Yes, ...

Three merging galaxies host three active black holes, offering rare insight into galaxy and black hole growth.

When you look up at the night sky, planets seem calm and fixed. But a new study shows that nearby planetary systems can be ...

A newborn star 15,000 light-years from Earth is fascinating astronomers with its dual blasts of superheated plasma jets. The ...

Understanding how the Milky Way formed means looking far beyond the bright spiral you see in the night sky. A new study led ...

A double blast of dying stars may be the first observed case of a long-hypothesized, never proven “superkilonova.” Although ...

For only the second time ever, a collision between two asteroids has been observed around an alien star not too far beyond ...

Astronomers have made a truly mind-boggling discovery using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST): a runaway black hole 10 ...

An artist's impression depicts the accretion disc surrounding a black hole, in which the inner region of the disc wobbles. In ...