Astronomers are trying to understand what caused a series of gamma ray bursts, or GRBs — the most powerful explosions in the ...

A discovery involving researchers at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) has, for the first time, revealed millisecond ...

Many planetary systems are born in slightly tilted protoplanetary disks, which would explain the misaligned orbits from the ...

The arrival of mini moon could draw the attention of private companies and agencies focused on asteroid mining ...

Astronomers from the University of Hawaii’s Institute for Astronomy have identified a new category of events that they found ...

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

The final solar eclipse of 2025, a partial ‘Surya Grahan,’ occurs on September 21–22. While India will miss the live event, ...

The GW190412 merger revealed a black-hole recoil moving faster than 50 km/s. Gravitational waves allowed its 3D motion to be reconstructed. A research group led by the Instituto Galego de Física de ...

A chance configuration of objects arrayed across deep space has just revealed the hiding place of a giant glob of dark matter ...

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 ...

New simulations suggest Earthlike planets may be much more typical than previously thought whereas water worlds may not.

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