Astronomers have long sorted galaxies into types based on their visible structure. Spiral galaxies, like our Milky Way, have ...

The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) has revealed an unexpected difference between the powerful winds launching ...

"The speed at which this doomed stellar system is lurching wildly, likely due to the extreme brightness, is a frantic sign of ...

Researchers from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have revealed for the first ...

Many LRDs exhibit a strong Balmer break, at an epoch starting just 600 million years after the Big Bang, 13.8 billion years ...

An artist’s impression of the TOI-3884 system: the super-Neptune TOI-3884b passing in front of the red dwarf star TOI-3884, which hosts a large starspot. (using generative AI and image editing tools).

Uranus will transition from prograde to retrograde motion, appearing to move westward relative to background stars, beginning at 1 A.M. EDT. Uranus is observable in the early morning sky, ...

The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) has revealed an unexpected difference between the powerful winds launching ...

Astronomers caught a neutron star launching a dense, slow wind, challenging long-held theories of how cosmic outflows begin ...

In a remarkable advancement for the field of astrophysics, astronomers have detected protostellar jets in the remote outer regions of the Milky Way. This groundbreaking finding, published in The ...

Recently, a jaw-dropping discovery has emerged in the field of astronomy — the accretion disks of black holes are intricately linked to the luminosity differences observed in supernova explosions.

A blowtorch of seething gases erupting from a volcanically growing monster star has been captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. Stretching across 8 light-years, the length of the stellar ...