A new study led by recent undergraduate student Caitlyn Nojiri and co-authored by astronomy and astrophysics professor Enrico ...

By combining the four giant telescopes of the Very Large Telescope, an international team has observed the exoplanet WASP-121b with unprecedented precision, revealing one of the most extreme climates ...

In a nutshell Scientists have mapped the three-dimensional structure of an exoplanet’s atmosphere for the first time, ...

Astronomers have peered through the atmosphere of a planet beyond the Solar System, mapping its 3D structure for the first time. By combining all four telescope units of the European Southern ...

Astrophysicists used the JWST to observe central supermassive black hole for 48 hours total across one year. They found the ...

A team of astronomers looking at data from the Murchison Widefield Array radio telescope in Western Australia were met with a ...

The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way appears to be having a party—and it is weird, wild and wonderful.

The Milky Way’s central black hole, Sagittarius A*, is an unstoppable cosmic firework show, flaring with wild bursts of energy that seem to have no pattern. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, ...

"Even the strongest hurricanes in the solar system seem calm in comparison." ...

The gas giant WASP 121b, also known as Tylos, has an atmospheric structure unlike any we have ever seen, and the fastest ...

"It feels like something out of science fiction," said European Southern Observatory astrophysicist Julia Victoria Seidel.

New research suggests that dark energy isn't needed to explain the acceleration in the expansion of the universe — instead ...