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

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

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

A stunning new image of a cosmic jet has helped astronomers unlock the mystery behind the unusually bright emission of ...

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

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

Scientists have discovered a peculiar supernova that may have resulted from a star's misguided attempt to swallow a black ...

With the help of AI, scientists from the CfA and MIT working within the Young Supernova Experiment uncovered evidence of a star’s violent collapse while interacting with a black hole.

Astronomers using the Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes "have determined that a giant black hole has destroyed a ...

One of these hot plasma channels tunnels through the heated plasma like a ‘back road’ into the galaxy, seemingly stretching ...

Researchers at Max Planck Institute have discovered a mysterious network of interstellar channels connecting Solar System to other star systems.

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