A cluster of space weather satellites blasted off Wednesday morning to cast fresh eyes on solar storms that can produce stunning auroras but also scramble communications and threaten astronauts in ...

Recently, astronomers have observed mysterious flashes of light near the edge of the Milky Way, sparking curiosity and ...

The recently discovered galaxy, known as SDSS J011754.86+095819.0, or dE01+09, seems to be one of these "runaway" systems.

When night falls in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, brilliant constellations shine down on the dry plains.

But those claims were quickly met with pushback. Independent analyses of the same JWST data suggested the team's evidence for ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...