Astronomers have strengthened long-standing predictions that massive runaway stars could have originated in binary pairs, and were dramatically ejected into space when their companion stars underwent ...

After the 200-day eclipse, ASASSN-24fw shines again, after the brown dwarf or super-Jupiter planet that blocked it moves out of the way. Credit: S. Shah et al. / DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staf2251 ...

Astronomy and commercial space are often portrayed as being on a collision course, yet their futures are deeply intertwined. As satellite constellations expand, astronomers raise concerns about trails ...

"This is essentially as close as we can get to seeing the death of a massive star." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking ...

"If our hypothesized dark charge is true, then we believe there could be a significant population of primordial black holes, which would be consistent with other astrophysical observations, and ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Astronomers have observed a planetary system that challenges current planet formation theories, with a rocky planet that formed beyond the orbits of its gaseous ...

An exoplanetary system about 116 light-years from Earth could flip the script on how planets form, according to researchers who discovered it using telescopes from NASA and the European Space Agency, ...

Donald G. York was a longtime University of Chicago astronomer and astronomy professor who co-founded the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a wide-ranging mapping of the solar system that produced a ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new massive and quiescent red galaxy, which they dubbed "Red Potato." The discovery was reported in a ...

Astronomers have spotted a mysteriously mature “baby cluster” of galaxies in the early universe, scarcely a billion years after the big bang. Although not a full-grown, full-blown galaxy cluster, the ...

Keiichi Ohnaka receives funding from Chile's Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo. Jacco van Loon does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or ...

A distant star system with four super-sized gas giants has revealed a surprise. Thanks to JWST’s powerful vision, astronomers detected sulfur in their atmospheres — a chemical clue that they formed ...