Astronomers have produced the first continuous, two-dimensional maps of the outer edge of the sun's atmosphere, a shifting, ...

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

Team member Nathalie Jones of the Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) assessed GPI ...

The findings are courtesy of the Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA) array, which is an optical ...

"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 NSF Very Large Array report the first radio detection of a rare Type Ibn supernova, revealing how a massive star lost helium-rich material in the years before its explosion ...

After decades of searching, astronomers may have finally stumbled upon the first moon known to exist beyond our solar ...

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

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

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

Burst from M-dwarf star could be powerful enough to strip the atmosphere of any planets that orbit it, with implications for ...