"This result shows that the Event Horizon Telescope is not only useful for producing spectacular images, but can also be used ...

The gravitational lens JVAS B1938+666 consists of massive bodies ranging from 6.5 billion to 11 billion light-years away, ...

Gas and dust flowing from stars can, under the right conditions, clash with a star's surroundings and create a shock wave.

Astronomers from Cardiff University, UK, have employed the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy (CARMA) ...

They’re bright and blue — and a bit strange. They’re a new type of stellar explosion that was recently discovered by a team of astronomers led by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).

The largest sample of galaxy groups ever detected has been presented by a team of international astronomers using data from the James Webb Space telescope (JWST) in an area of the sky called COSMOS ...

San Diego State University (SDSU) astronomers have discovered the 10th known “transiting circumbinary” exoplanet, which orbits two stars and therefore has two suns. Astronomers at the 29th ...

Gas and dust flowing from stars can, under the right conditions, clash with a star's surroundings and create a shock wave.

A rare nova explosion will soon bring a "new star" to the night sky, and scientists are excited. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

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Life. But how would we know it? The world of astronomy is abuzz with excitement. Have we discovered the first-ever evidence of off-world life? Is the signal extracted from the interstellar noise a ...

SpaceX and optical astronomers have already butted heads over the high reflectivity of Starlink internet satellites, and now radio astronomers have their own beef with Elon Musk's aerospace firm.