When Anastasios Tzanidakis was sifting through some older telescope observations, he stumbled across something that should ...

"Baby star clusters" are aggregates of very young stars in the early stages of formation. Distinguished by their recent birth ...

Astronomers have spotted a planet orbiting a star in our neighbourhood of the Milky Way galaxy that presents a unique ...

Astronomers have uncovered evidence of a dramatic cosmic crash unfolding around a distant star. While reviewing archived ...

The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is one of the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbors—a small, gas-rich galaxy visible to the ...

The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), one of the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbors, is undergoing a transformation visible from the southern hemisphere. This change is due ...

Two new studies suggest a new way of measuring expansion in the immediate cosmos by analyzing the motion of two nearby galaxy groups. Galaxies within these groups are simultaneously bound together by ...

The planet, named L 98-59 d, is covered with magma and ​enveloped by a noxious and fiercely hot, sulfur-rich atmosphere.

Astronomers have discovered one of the most chemically primitive stars ever identified — an ancient stellar relic that preserves the chemical imprint ...

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to investigate a new type of planet. This molten lava world beyond the solar system likely smells like rotten eggs, and suggests that there ...

Science in the modern era is increasingly reliant on enormous datasets and automated analysis. In astronomy, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST)—a ten-year survey ...

For the first time, a binary black hole merger, observed in November 2024, has been linked with a short gamma-ray burst (GRB), a phenomenon that was previously thought impossible. This unprecedented ...