Astronomers have finally found evidence for a proposed mechanism for a special kind of supernova, known as a Type Ia ...

MUSE allows astronomers to map the distribution of different chemical elements, displayed here in different colours. Calcium ...

Two studies fill in gaps about the cosmos’s ordinary matter. One maps it all, even the “missing matter.” The other details one of its hiding spots.

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

Machine learning can help tighten constraints on the overarchingFor almost as long as humans have existed, we have been ...

We're celebrating our role as hosts of the UK's leading astronomy conference next week (7-11 July) with a series of free ...

Gravity can exist without mass.” It’s a statement that upends a century of astrophysical dogma and, for some, sounds as ...

Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat.

Nature Astronomy is a new online-only journal, publishing monthly from January 2017. Nature Astronomy is a truly multidisciplinary journal for the field, representing — and fostering closer ...

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...

We have discovered two interstellar objects so far, ’Oumuamua and Comet 2I/Borisov. ’Oumuamua had no dust tail and a ...

"Astronomers may have just discovered the third interstellar object passing through the Solar System!" the agency's ...