"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." ...

With the recent first light milestone for the Vera Rubin Observatory, it's only a matter of time before one of astronomy's ...

“It’s very exciting!” Hopkins, an astrophysics graduate student at the University of Oxford, told IFLScience. “I’ve been ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, a 2.35-billion-year-old lunar meteorite found in Africa in 2023 has unveiled fresh insights into the moon’s volcanic history. This meteorite, with a unique chemical ...

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

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

Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill adds $9.9 billion to NASA’s budget, reversing plans to cut the Space Launch System and Orion.

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

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 newly observed binary system features a cataclysmic variable star, designated GOTO0650, which is in a rarely seen late ...

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