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 ...

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

"Each new detection brings us closer to understanding the origins of complex organic chemistry in the universe — and perhaps, ...

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

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 ...

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

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

County Durham pupils are participating in the National Astronomy Meeting 2025, hosted by Durham University and organised by ...

Astronomers have detected 3I/ATLAS, the third interstellar object identified, traveling at approximately 240,000 km/h towards the Sun. Its high velocity suggests an origin outside our solar system ...