"This nova is strange not just in its extremely luminous behavior but also in its short duration." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works ...

Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, the Pei-Ling Chan Endowed Chair at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, has co-authored a paper that uses young stars to ...

Hypervelocity stars have, since the 1920s, been an important tool that allows astronomers to study the properties of the ...

To make this happen, scientists collected about 200,000 images between 2010 and 2023. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The most ...

NASA is preparing to turn the center of our own galaxy into a precision test bed, using the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to build the most detailed infrared map of the Milky Way ever attempted.

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers traced how Milky Way–like galaxies formed and changed over time.

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) are part of an international team that has pooled their radio observations into a database, producing the highest ...

Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's Gaia mission, results ...

Researchers conducted the first-ever near-infrared analysis of an extragalactic recurrent nova and found it is one of the hottest nova explosions ever discovered. When you purchase through links on ...