For years, astronomers have predicted a dramatic fate for our galaxy: a head-on collision with Andromeda, our nearest large ...

Tidal disruption events such as Gaia18cdj are associated with flares that are explosive and long-duration. These explosions ...

European astronomers have investigated a galaxy cluster designated CIZA J2242.8+5301, dubbed the Sausage cluster. The ...

A neutron star's final moments may spark violent starquakes, monster shock waves, and even a fleeting, never-before-seen ...

Extreme nuclear transients are 10 million times rarer than supernovae and emit the same amount of energy as 100 Suns.

An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new ultracompact binary of the AM CVn type exhibiting ...

Astrophysicists have just discovered when a particular class of galaxies, Lyman Alpha Emitters, experienced their first major ...

For the first time, they’ve found rare forms of methanol, a simple type of alcohol, in a disk of gas and dust where planets ...

“ENTs are different beasts,” study lead author and astronomer Jason Hinkle explained in an accompanying statement. “Not only ...

Was the “Big Bang” a cosmic rebound? New study suggests the Universe may have started inside a giant black hole.

Earth. It’s about 10 times more massive than Earth, and orbits in the habitable zone of a Sun-like star 2475 light-years away ...

Astronomers have been left puzzled by the discovery of an unusually large planet orbiting a remarkably small star, a cosmic ...