We stand at the edge of a vast plain, deep in the Pilbara, surrounded by spinifex, tussock grasses and the cloying red dust ...

The newly observed binary system features a cataclysmic variable star, designated GOTO0650, which is in a rarely seen late stage of its evolution. This was also the first major discovery for the ...

Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope took photos a rare supernova roughly 300 years after it happened ...

Astronomers taken on the role of cosmic archeologists, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to excavate over 100 disk ...

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.

An international team of astronomers has discovered new structural and spectral details of SNR J0450.4−7050, a supernova ...

A new quantum recipe for black holes could be the first step toward a theory of "quantum gravity", the "holy grail" of ...

Supermassive black holes are the largest black holes in the universe and can be found at the center of galaxies including our own Milky Way. They are at least a million ... Sometimes a star is pulled ...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory provides a new look at the Andromeda galaxy in this multi-wavelength image that includes ...

Astronomers have long thought that the Milky Way is headed for an inevitable crash with its neighbor, Andromeda. But a new study complicates the story.

The scientists who precisely measure the position of Earth are in a bit of trouble. Their measurements are essential for the ...