A class of University of Texas astronomy students has discovered that nearby dwarf galaxy Segue-1 seems to host a ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has looked back into deep time to find “rubies” or “little red dots” stretched across the ...

Learn about two black hole mergers in 2024 that experts revisited with new information from gravitational waves, confirming ...

The nearby dwarf galaxy Segue 1 is exceptionally faint for its mass, which has puzzled astronomers almost since its discovery. A new paper proposes this could be because it hosts a ridiculously ...

I/ATLAS is the third interstellar object ever discovered in our solar system. Telescope observations suggest it is a roughly 7-mile-wide (11 kilometers) comet zooming at more than 130,000 mph (210,000 ...

Most of these astrophysical monsters are stars with various behavioral issues, such as explosive supernovae or ridiculously ...

"No low-frequency radio image of the entire Southern Galactic Plane has been published before, making this an exciting ...

Huge eruptions from the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole in the distant past may have sterilized much of the inner galaxy ...

A team of scientists has developed an LED lamp as thin as a sheet of paper that shines as brightly as the star orbiting the ...

Astronomers have created the most detailed low-frequency map of the Milky Way, revealing otherwise hidden stars and ...

One of the Milky Way’s smallest galactic neighbours seems to have a supermassive black hole at its centre, upending ...