A supermassive black hole violently gobbled up an enormous star, producing a gargantuan cosmic outburst, according to a new ...

Astronomers spotted the largest flare ever released from a supermassive black hole as it snacked on a giant star.

As humans began to explore outer space in the latter half of the 20th century, radio waves proved a powerful tool. Scientists ...

Scientists led by a team from the University of Chicago recently released a study that mapped some of the largest known ...

A remarkable new study challenges the findings of Nobel Prize-winning research into how our universe has changed over time.

Alfred University is home to the Stull Observatory and its seven independent telescopes, but relatively few students have chosen to take advantage of those resources in the form of a minor in ...

A class of University of Texas astronomy students has discovered that nearby dwarf galaxy Segue-1 seems to host a ...

A Curtin University study cataloged over 112,000 instances of unintended radio emissions from Starlink satellites, impacting up to 30% of astronomical images from a Square Kilometre Array (SKA) ...

Researchers using new simulations suggest that the Milky Way’s past collisions may have reshaped its dark matter core. This ...

"The extraordinary results are an essential step toward understanding the initial conditions that lead to the formation of Earth-like planets." Infant planets are ravenous little blighters that ...

"Light pollution from projects like INNA doesn't just hinder research, it steals our shared view of the universe." A green energy plant expected to be built in Chile's Atacama Desert could increase ...

Press Release from The University of North Carolina Asheville: The University of North Carolina Asheville’s Department of Physics and Astronomy recently launched a new astronomy major — the first in ...