Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.

Astronomers tracked a decade of dramatic changes in P13, a neutron star undergoing supercritical accretion. Its X-ray ...

MUSE survey, an international team of astronomers has inspected a nuclear star cluster of the nearby large spiral galaxy ...

Compelling evidence that the structure of matter surrounding supermassive black holes has changed over cosmic time has been ...

"We might lose the ability to observe about 30% of the faintest galaxies. We are at the point of starting to be able to see ...

Astronomers have sighted the oldest known stellar explosion, dating back to when the universe was less than a billion years ...

Astronomers using the Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes "have determined that a giant black hole has destroyed a ...

Astronomers are uncovering vast, wheel-shaped structures in the cosmos that challenge long-held ideas about how galaxies grow ...

The exoplanet, discovered by Northwestern University astronomers, orbits two suns exactly like Luke Skywalker's fictional ...

Chile’s Atacama Desert is one of the darkest spots on Earth, a crown jewel for astronomers who flock to study the origins of ...

Astronomers are learning more about the origins of supermassive black holes after new data is revealed from a 20-year-long ...

Researchers have found a razor-thin, rotating string of galaxies inside a massive cosmic filament, revealing unexpected ...