MIT astronomers have observed the elusive starlight surrounding some of the earliest quasars in the universe. The distant ...

"FU Ori has been devouring material for almost 100 years to keep its eruption going. We have finally found an answer to how ...

Many astronomers, like Christopher Sirola from the University of Southern Mississippi, even view eclipses as an opportunity to harness public captivation to educate about the science behind the ...

But in 1973, the planets aligned in such a way that a group of daring and lucky astronomers managed ... attempting to determine if there was a ring of them around the sun. Paul Wraith from ...

The average mass of known black holes of stellar origin in our galaxy is around 10 times the mass ... will be published in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics.

Major cuts to its funding could lead to layoffs for half of the observatory’s staff by October and, according to concerned scientists, a premature end to the mission around 2026. Astronomers are ...

Studying these pulses, which can also come from mergers of some exotic astronomical objects such as black holes and neutron stars, can help astronomers ... will orbit around each other, creeping ...

Using the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT), astronomers have performed high-resolution observations of a recently detected extreme helium star designated EC 19529–4430. It turned out that ...

Astronomers have gotten better at tracking ... Victor Glover, a nine-year veteran of the astronaut corps who will fly around the moon in 2025, said the search for excellence and diversity were ...

Apr. 30, 2024 — NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the sharpest infrared images to date of a zoomed-in portion of one of the most distinctive objects in our skies, the Horsehead ...