Astronomers have stumbled upon a pair of massive black holes in a distant galaxy that are triggering unusual bursts of light ...

A shockwave caused by the galaxy NGC 7318b slamming into four other galaxies is akin to a "sonic boom from a jet fighter." ...

The canal networks were built as early as 4,000 years ago by semi-nomadic people in the Yucatan coastal plain. According to ...

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery of binary star systems, consisting of a white dwarf and a main sequence star ...

an astronomy professor at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy and co-author of the study. This is an image of the star WOH G64, taken by the GRAVITY instrument on the European Southern ...

While astronomers have taken about two dozen zoomed-in images of stars in our galaxy, unveiling their properties, countless other stars dwell within other galaxies, so far away that observing even one ...

In an article published in the Astronomy & Astrophysics journal, new evidence suggests how supermassive black holes, with ...

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A new JWST study has revealed the true origins of a luminous quasar that has been duplicated six times as its light "zig-zags ...

A team of astronomers including professor Jane Huang have shown that extreme astrophysical environments can foster new ...

That ordinary smartphone in your pocket could be a powerful tool for investigating outer space. In a new study, researchers ...

Scientists uncovered evidence that astrophysics models of massive stars and supernovae are inconsistent with observational ...