Astronomers have been treated to a stunning fireworks display from around a young star called The events, detected in 2004 ...

Astronomers have detected spacetime itself being dragged and twisted by a spinning black hole for the first time. The ...

The Moon is usually a picture of stillness, its grey face changing only with the phases of light. Yet for a fraction of a ...

Years ago, astronomers believed they had found a planet forming around a nearby star called Fomalhaut. This was very exciting ...

Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.

Among the more puzzling cosmic phenomena discovered over the past few decades are brief and very bright flashes of blue and ...

“The fact that we can now watch stars explode and immediately see the structure of the material being blasted into space is ...

A mysterious cosmic scar reveals two massive stars that passed near our solar system millions of years ago, energizing nearby ...

Astronomers tracked a decade of dramatic changes in P13, a neutron star undergoing supercritical accretion. Its X-ray ...

Astronomers from the University of Hawai'i (UH) at Manoa and elsewhere have observed the Taurus star-forming region, which ...

An artist’s impression depicts the accretion disk surrounding a black hole, in which the inner region of the disk wobbles. In this context, the wobble refers to the orbit of material surrounding the ...

Although this controversy might be specific to Chile, home to 40 percent of the world’s astronomy infrastructure, the project ...