A pair of NASA spacecraft know as the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) to be launched to Mars by a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket. ESCAPADE will study how the "solar wind ...

Chinese astronomers have found a pair of young star clusters formed within a circumgalactic high-velocity cloud on the outskirts of the Milky Way—the first direct evidence of star formation in such an ...

An international team from China and Italy has reported a possible cosmic encore to the landmark 2017 multi-messenger ...

What does it look like two planets collide? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes ...

The Sun, along with more than 1,500 other stars, journeyed from the middle of the Milky Way to its current position a few billion years ago.

Astronomers have caught what may be a rare cosmic catastrophe unfolding 11,000 light-years away. A seemingly ordinary sun-like star suddenly began flickering wildly, puzzling scientists until they ...

Cornell students reflect on the Artemis program seeking to return astronauts to the Moon and establish a sustained scientific presence there.

Researchers say the "powerful engine" behind superluminous exploding stars had been hidden for years — until a "chirp" from the cosmos helped confirm their link.

When looking up into the night sky, the black canvas is usually filled with an array of lights and patterns. To an ordinary person, these patterns may not seem too intriguing or even garner a second ...

A new study published in Nature Astronomy indicates that the dense, star- and dark-matter–rich environments around supermassive black hole binaries pack on the order of a million solar masses into ...

Why choose this course at Sussex? Explore astronomy and astrophysics at an advanced level, focusing on observational, theoretical or computational astronomy. This course is one of only three full-time ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have discovered galaxies colliding in the early universe, revealing that cosmic structures are far more complicated than astronomers once ...