“ENTs are different beasts,” study lead author and astronomer Jason Hinkle explained in an accompanying statement. “Not only ...

Astronomers from the University of Hawaiʻi's Institute for Astronomy (IfA) have discovered the most energetic cosmic ...

An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new ultracompact binary of the AM CVn type exhibiting ...

A possible new dwarf planet has been discovered at the edge of our solar system, so far-flung that it takes around 25,000 ...

Researchers estimate that MoM z14 was created 280 million years after the Big Bang, 10 million years earlier than the ...

The brutal star-destroying tidal disruption event is only the second ever seen in interacting galaxies.

Identifying ancient Chinese astronomical events represents a fascinating aspect of modern astrophysics. Chinese astronomers ...

The mystery object, located just a short 15,000 light-years from Earth in our Milky Way galaxy, was spotted emitting unusual ...

Astronomers have discovered a mysterious new object in our Milky Way, which is emitting X-rays and radio waves at the same ...

Astronomers have spotted something remarkable hiding in the depths of the Milky Way—a nearly perfect circle formed from the ...

Astronomers spotted water around a young, sun-like star for the first time ever, and it could help us understand solar system formation.

Ancient Greek astronomers likely observed Uranus as a star, but limited tools and geocentric views kept them from recognizing ...