The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope has detected "a scar imprinted on the surface" of white dwarf star ...

A pair of stars orbiting one another has been found near the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* using the European ...

But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

Armed with the world's largest digital camera, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile will take night-sky images that ...

A mystery interstellar object discovered last week is likely to be the oldest comet ever seen – possibly predating our solar system by more than three billion years, researchers say. The "water ...

New research has revealed everything astronomers currently know about the mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS.

Tony Tyson’s cameras revealed the universe’s dark contents. Now, with the Rubin Observatory’s 3.2-billion-pixel camera, he’s ...

Only a few dozen of these short-lived binaries exist in the galaxy at a time, making the serendipitous find extremely ...

Names are a strange thing in astronomy. Sometimes scientists come up with grandiose, simple name, like the Extremely Large ...

On Earth, water is so intertwined with life that our search for life on other worlds is essentially a search for water. When ...

Two international teams zoned in on a potential answer to a decades-long mystery surrounding ephemeral cosmic X-rays.

New observations from England’s e-MERLIN interferometer telescope array display cosmic pebbles that will one day grow into ...