Astronomers have discovered a tiny, ghostly galaxy in a remote corner of the universe, likely a cosmic castaway flung from ...

A new class of supermassive black holes embedded in a thick gas shell could explain small red dots in images from the James ...

Astronomers have witnessed a rare “extremely stripped supernova” that exposed the inner silicon layers of a dying star, confirming theories of stellar fusion and offering new insight into how ...

Only after adding a massive, invisible halo of dark matter to their computer models could the researchers reproduce what they ...

Oconee County resident Susan Vizurraga has written an historical fiction novel on a little-known female astronomer.

A supermassive black hole lurking at the center of M87, a supergiant galaxy 55 million light-years from Earth, is acting far ...

Astronomers have detected a massive gamma-ray explosion coming from outside the galaxy. The explosion's origins and power are ...

A Kenosha astronomer has uncovered a piece of astronomy history — a telescope once thought to be lost forever.

With help from amateur astronomers, scientists tracked how an asteroid travelled from space, broke up in Earth's atmosphere ...

The Astroberry system by Raspberry Pi offers various tools to make astronomy easier. This includes Wi-Fi hotspots, ...

The newly discovered pulsar orbits its companion once every 19 hours, but instead of a smooth circle, the orbit is stretched into a long oval. Its unusual orbit makes the system very rare ...

Scientists at Rutgers and collaborators have traced the invisible dark matter scaffolding of the universe using over 100,000 ...