When Anastasios Tzanidakis was sifting through some older telescope observations, he stumbled across something that should ...

Astronomers have uncovered evidence of a dramatic cosmic crash unfolding around a distant star. While reviewing archived ...

"Cosmic archaeologists" have discovered an iron-deficient second-generation star, which provides evidence of how ancient ...

Astronomers have detected strange "wobbles" in the light curve of a super bright supernova, hinting that a magnetar was born inside the extreme stellar explosion.

When worlds collide…suns act squirrely. Astronomers have witnessed a rare and violent cosmic crash between two planets, and ...

The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is one of the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbors—a small, gas-rich galaxy visible to the ...

Astronomers have slammed SpaceX and Reflect Orbital plans for unnaturally brightening skies and disrupting ecosystems.

The local universe may be expanding more slowly than previously thought, a discovery that could relieve a pesky discrepancy ...

A mysterious bow shock around the white dwarf RXJ0528+2838 is challenging astronomers’ understanding of how dead stars ...

Astronomers using the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) have detected a long-period radio transient with a period of 36 minutes, a finding that could reshape our understanding of stellar systems. The ...

Astronomers produced the most complete map of the center of the Milky Way, which can provide insight into how stars and ...

Why doesn't Astronomy magazine recognize Messier 110? Keith LankfordHarvest, Alabama Amateur astronomers dubbed this object M110 in the 1960s, so we choose not to include it. Charles Messier's list ...