For those who missed the memo, UFOs (unidentified flying objects) are now called UAPs (unidentified aerospace-undersea ...

A recent five-year study has uncovered new insights into the properties of yellow hypergiants, a heavy star class known for ...

Enabled by supercomputing, University of Pretoria (UP) researchers have led an international team of astronomers that has ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spied dynamic flares of light near the supermassive black hole at the ...

Explore the astonishing findings from the Webb Telescope on the restless black hole Sagittarius A* at the Milky Way's center.

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

How did the great modern scientific adventure related to the discovery and study of celestial bodies and the cosmos begin?

Astronomers have peered through the atmosphere of a planet beyond the Solar System, mapping its 3D structure for the first ...

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

Temperamental' stars that brighten and dim over a matter of hours or days may be distorting our view of thousands of distant planets, suggests a new study.

The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) imaged both of the planets directly, and PDS 70b has the ...

Astronomers have mapped, for the first time, the three-dimensional structure of an exoplanet’s atmosphere, revealing ...