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 ...

"Astronomers may have just discovered the third interstellar object passing through the Solar System!" the agency's ...

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

Scientists are still trying to understand how galaxies formed and evolved from primordial gas clouds into the organized ...

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

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

We have discovered two interstellar objects so far, ’Oumuamua and Comet 2I/Borisov. ’Oumuamua had no dust tail and a ...

The American Astronomical Society (AAS), the SETI Institute, and the NASA Community College Network (NCCN) have teamed up to ...

Climate scientists in the United States are to be cut off from satellite data measuring the amount of sea ice — a sensitive ...

An international team of astrophysicists have uncovered a possible origin of fast X-ray transients (FXTs) — mysterious, ...

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