Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.
Team member Nathalie Jones of the Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) assessed GPI ...
Astronomers have sighted the oldest known stellar explosion, dating back to when the universe was less than a billion years ...
A nova doesn't destroy the white dwarf like a Type 1a supernova does, but rather occurs when the white dwarf siphons too much ...
Compelling evidence that the structure of matter surrounding supermassive black holes has changed over cosmic time has been ...
Astronomers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have helped uncover new clues about the longest-lasting cosmic ...
The exoplanet, discovered by Northwestern University astronomers, orbits two suns exactly like Luke Skywalker's fictional ...
A seven-hour gamma-ray burst, GRB 250702B, stuns astronomers and hints at powerful new cosmic engines still unknown to science.
3I/ATLAS is only the third known interstellar visitor, hence the prefix “3I.” The second known interstellar body, Comet ...
Lowell Observatory astronomer Dr. Qicheng Zhang has captured the first ground-based optical images of Comet 3I/ATLAS following its closest approach to the Sun, thanks to the unique low-horizon ...
After decades of searching, astronomers may have finally stumbled upon the first moon known to exist beyond our solar ...
Astronomers capture the twinkle of a distant quasar, RX J1131, and reveal the secret size of a black hole's fiery corona.