For the first time, gravitational waves have been detected coming from the violent collision of two neutron star potentially solving the mystery of where heavy elements like gold come from as well as producing a visible afterglow detected by over 70 telescopes around the world.
The sun is nearing a low-activity point of its solar cycle, but researchers at NASA are detecting large solar flares leaving the celestial body.
A new research study by a group of astronomers, based on observation using the VLTI, has created the most detailed map of a star other than the Sun.
Scientists appear to have found the first X-rays coming from type Ia supernovae.
A team of scientists used 20 years of data from several telescopes to watch how three stars orbited the center of our own Milky Way Galaxy, Sagittarius A*. They’ve created a general relativity theory test.
The researchers have produced an intricate 3D rendering of newly formed molecules inside the supernova remnant using ALMA telescope.
Astronomers at the University of Cambridge have discovered a star that’s barely bigger than Saturn, making it the smallest stellar object known to science.
Analyzing a galaxy through a gravitational lens, astronomers obtained images 10 times sharper than Hubble could see on its own.
Recently, the Atacama Large Millimeter Array gave us an amazing view of Betelgeuse, - the star that is destined to go supernova at anytime in the next few thousand years or so.
The Breakthrough Starshot Initiative's purpose goes far beyond the Moon. The project seeks to travel to the nearest stars.
A NASA instrument built to help astronomers learn about the structure and behavior of neutron stars has been mounted to the International Space Station.
Did our sun have a twin when it was born 4.5 billion years ago? Almost certainly yes -- though not an identical twin.
Two teams of researchers reported they have detected a prebiotic molecule—a potential building block of life—around newly formed sunlike stars.
Astronomers have confirmed the existence of the seventh planet around the ultracool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1.
Tabby's star is dipping drastically in brightness, giving astronomers an opportunity to figure out what has been causing this star's weird behavior.
