With help from amateur astronomers, scientists tracked how an asteroid traveled from space, broke up in Earth's atmosphere ...

Astronomers have discovered a tiny, ghostly galaxy in a remote corner of the universe, likely a cosmic castaway flung from ...

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

Astronomers from the University of Hawaii’s Institute for Astronomy have identified a new category of events that they found ...

A supermassive black hole lurking at the center of M87, a supergiant galaxy 55 million light-years from Earth, is acting far ...

Astronomers have detected a massive gamma-ray explosion coming from outside the galaxy. The explosion's origins and power are ...

Astronomers have witnessed a rare “extremely stripped supernova” that exposed the inner silicon layers of a dying star, confirming theories of stellar fusion and offering new insight into how ...

A new AI-powered tool has reduced astronomers' workload by 85%—filtering through thousands of data alerts to identify the few ...

Astronomers worldwide are tracking 3I/ATLAS, the third confirmed interstellar object, currently traversing our solar system.

The newly discovered pulsar orbits its companion once every 19 hours, but instead of a smooth circle, the orbit is stretched ...

"Being an astronomer today is like being an explorer hundreds of years ago," Lada explains. "Scientists are constantly discovering new things, and you never know what you’re going to find next in a ...