Dark matter makes up 85% of the universe, but researchers, including Vera Rubin herself, historically have had a hard time ...

Astronomers have shared a jaw-dropping view of what galaxies looked like in the early Universe. A study has peered back to ...

Astronomers tend to make a solid living that is comfortably over $100,000 per year, but hefty schooling is required to get to ...

Only a few dozen of these short-lived binaries exist in the galaxy at a time, making the serendipitous find extremely ...

"This tangible evidence of a double detonation not only contributes towards solving a long-standing mystery, but also offers ...

What new methods can be developed in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI)? This is what a recent white paper ...

Newfound interstellar object 3I/ATLAS may be carrying pristine material from early in the Milky Way’s star-forming history.

New observations show a star that blew up in two separate bursts, confirming a long-suspected cosmic phenomenon called a ...

The icy giant is more than 10 times the size of any known comet, according to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.

Overall, the citizen scientists identified 10,001 eclipsing binary pairs. Of those, 7,936 were previously unknown.

The shattered star at the center was once a white dwarf, a stellar ember no larger than Earth, yet almost as heavy as the Sun ...

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...