NASA's Hubble Space Telescope got a rare look at the aftermath of two cosmic collisions — and helped scientists solve a ...
In 2008, astronomers detected an unexplained bright object located 25 light-years from Earth in the Piscis Austrinus ...
The combination of a supernova and a kilonova may have produced a rare space explosion that astronomers have never seen ...
Astronomers have made a truly mind-boggling discovery using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST): a runaway black hole 10 ...
A pair of nascent planets have been caught smashing together around the nearby star Fomalhaut, and in doing so have solved ...
Our universe is filled with galaxies, in all directions as far as our instruments can see. Some researchers estimate that ...
Among the more puzzling cosmic phenomena discovered over the past few decades are brief and very bright flashes of blue and ...
It’s always amazing, and more than a little humbling, when the universe reminds us that our “common sense” is provincial, ...