About 8,150 light-years from Earth, a white dwarf star named Gaia22ayj has intrigued astronomers. Its unusual behavior, ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Buried in the sweeping legislation is an $85 million provision to move NASA's most-flown spacecraft from the national ...

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

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

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