"This discovery heralds a broader understanding of the diversity in massive stars' deaths and a need for deeper investigations into the whole landscape of stellar evolution." ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, a 2.35-billion-year-old lunar meteorite found in Africa in 2023 has unveiled fresh insights ...

Astronomers suggest Earth may sit in a giant cosmic void. This could explain the faster local universe expansion, known as ...

Stars often die with a final burst of beauty. For the first time, astronomers have captured visual proof that a star can ...

Only a few dozen of these short-lived binaries exist in the galaxy at a time, making the serendipitous find extremely ...

Nestled atop Mars Hill in Flagstaff, Lowell Observatory has been a cornerstone of astronomical discovery since 1894 — and it’s still inspiring curiosity today.

How do we know 3I/ATLAS, also called comet C/2025 N1 (ATLAS), is interstellar? Will it strike Earth? Can we visit it? Here ...

An international research team led by the University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ) has discovered two new planets performing ...

The icy giant is more than 10 times the size of any known comet, according to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.

Previously described as playing astronomical "spot the difference," Kilonova Seekers asks the public to compare the latest ...

The plan provides the vision and priorities for Australian astronomy over the coming decade. Cover artwork by Noeleen Hamlett ...

Astronomers have uncovered a vast cloud of energetic particles—a "mini halo"—surrounding one of the most distant galaxy ...