A consensus is emerging that the dots, sometimes called rubies, are an entirely new type of object in the Universe.

How can a celestial object be bright and faint at the same time? The answer hinges on its surface brightness. In the case of ...

Starfront Observatories allows amateur astronomers to rent a spot for their telescopes and photograph the cosmos over a ...

A study looking at ancient texts may have found evidence of a galactic supernova in a poem praising Saladin, the first sultan of Egypt and Syria, written between December 1181 and May 1182 CE. The ...

Dark matter is a fundamental hypothesis when it comes to our understanding of the universe, but it remains a hypothesis. We ...

New X-ray observations reveal Betelgeuse’s mysterious companion is not a collapsed stellar remnant but a young, Sun-like ...

It's great to see old astronomical observations come to light. Not only can these confirm or refute what's known about ...

The Hubble Space Telescope reveals how color filters tease out the life cycles of stars in spiral galaxy NGC 6000 — while a ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team led by Northwestern University has for the first time ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has changed the game for planet hunters. Recent readings found what look like the first clues ...

An unexpected deep-sea deposit may be the smoking gun from a nearby star that exploded as a supernova in the relatively ...

Now, astronomers have found a star that may be as close as we’ve ever come to witnessing one of the primordial stars. Known ...