Astronomers and students working together through a unique educational initiative have obtained a striking new image of the ...

Astronomers have used a new type of extreme supernova in which a massive star was stripped right "down to the bone" to better ...

"At the moment, Punctum truly stands apart — it doesn't fit comfortably into any known category," said Shablovinskaia. "And ...

An international team of astronomers has made the unexpected discovery of a new planet. Detected at an early stage of formation around a young Sun-like star, the planet is estimated to be about 5 ...

For decades, astronomers have wondered what the very first stars in the universe were like. These stars formed new chemical ...

From mass fluctuations, to Little Red Dots, to new galaxies captured by the James Webb telescope—astronomy has learned a lot in a year.

Astronomers captured a glimpse of the innermost layers of a massive star before it exploded in a supernova, changing their ...

For decades, scientists have known that at least half of the universe's ordinary, or baryonic matter—composed primarily of protons—was unaccounted for. Previously, astronomers have used ...

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Astronomers came to understand how nuclear fusion creates an onion-skin structure in massive stars as atoms successively fuse to build heavier and heavier elements, ending with iron in the ...

Astronomers are enlisting AI to prepare for a data downpour Tailored algorithms will help filter a coming flood of astronomical observations, helping scientists make new discoveries about the ...

Each year in northern Pennsylvania, hundreds of stargazers attend gatherings under increasingly rare dark skies to look for faint galaxies, star clusters and nebulae.