Combining observations from several powerful telescopes, astronomers have detected a gargantuan, 'wobbling' black hole ...

To explain these observations, they proposed a new kind of energy that is responsible for driving the universe’s accelerated expansion: dark energy. Astrophysicists now believe dark energy makes up ...

Scientists have discovered over 6,000 planets that orbit stars other than our sun, known as exoplanets. More than half of ...

2025 marked the first official year of our newest citizen science effort, Satellite Surveillance, which delivered major ...

Astronomers found evidence that dark matter and neutrinos may interact, hinting at a "fundamental breakthrough" that challenges our understanding of how the universe evolved.

While two teams have ideas about what happened to yellow supergiant M31-2014-DS1, ultimately, it remains a mystery.

Solar prominences occur when the sun’s plasma, flowing along the magnetic field lines that the sun creates, forms a loop into space along the edge of the sun’s disk. When a prominence becomes ...

Astronomers found an iron bar in the Ring Nebula that doesn't match any known stellar phenomenon. Scientists can't explain ...

Optical proof of a tiny companion orbiting supergiant star Betelgeuse is hard to come by. Hubble just spotted new evidence.

Astronomers have captured the most dramatic view yet of a planet losing its atmosphere, watching the ultra-hot gas giant WASP ...

Known as dinosaur stars for both their primeval nature and their immense size, Population III stars existed only when the ...

In Trilobites, reporters aim to share new findings in the science world, be it interspecies friendships or discoveries of ...