Astronomers have discovered what may be a massive star exploding while trying to swallow a black hole companion, offering an ...

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

David Jewitt at the University of California, Los Angeles, and his colleagues studied images from ground-based and ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected strong evidence for a giant planet orbiting Alpha Centauri A, the nearest ...

The Davis Astronomy Club welcomed its members and the surrounding community to a free event Tuesday night to catch a glimpse ...

Using the MeerKAT radio telescope, an international team of astronomers have discovered a new fast radio burst, which ...

This galaxy formed just 930 million years after the Big Bang, offering a rare glimpse into the universe's early years.

About 7.4 billion light-years away, a bright galactic nucleus with a supermassive black hole that spews out jets of plasma is ...

The simplest explanation — that Punctum is an extreme example of something familiar — hasn’t been ruled out. A magnetar in an unusual environment, a supernova remnant tangled with dense material, or ...

Astronomers found hidden cosmic channels, like tunnels, connecting our solar system to distant stars, reshaping views of ...

That cosmologists cannot agree on one of the most elementary facts about the universe is striking enough. But that ...

The latest observations of 3I/ATLAS suggest it resembles comets from the outer reaches of our solar system, but may be ...