An international team of astronomers, led by SRON, has observed a sudden outburst of matter near the supermassive black hole ...

Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been ...

Astronomers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have helped uncover new clues about the longest-lasting cosmic ...

“The fact that we can now watch stars explode and immediately see the structure of the material being blasted into space is ...

Texas Tech assistant professor Elias Aydi led an international team of astronomers in publishing new findings on how stellar explosions, called novae, unfold. Using a high-resolution imaging technique ...

Astronomers have long been concerned about reflections from satellites showing up in images taken by telescopes and other ...

Astronomers have captured the most detailed close-up images ever taken of stars exploding, known as novae. These pictures ...

NASA revealed that scientists discovered sugars that are “essential” to life and a “gum-like” substance on the space rock ...

The enigmatic Maya calendar synchronizes all visible planets, thus solving an astronomical puzzle that had remained unsolved ...

Scientists discovered ribose — in addition to “all five nucleobases used to construct both DNA and RNA” — on asteroid Bennu, ...

New technology is helping astronomers open new windows into novae, stellar explosions that can act as 'laboratories for ...

Nearly nine out of ten campuses offering physics courses offer an algebra- and trigonometry-based course; nonetheless, this ...