The flare came from a supermassive black hole that’s 10 billion light years away, making the flash the most distant one ...

New images from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed NGC 6537, the Red Spider Nebula in unprecedented detail, ...

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Scientists at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) have uncovered the intricate magnetic heartbeat of a distant star remarkably similar to our own Sun—but much younger and more active.

The massive cosmic object lurks in a star system you can see with the naked eye. This artist’s impression shows the orbits of the objects in the HR 6819 triple system. The system is made up of an ...

Scientists say they may have discovered an exoplanet capable of supporting life. The planet, a super-Earth named HD 20794 d, is located just 20 light-years away. It has a mass six times that of our ...

Scientists have confirmed the existence of an exoplanet orbiting Barnard's star, the closest single star to the sun. Credit: Many Worlds Scientists say they've finally found a world orbiting Barnard's ...

This new image taken of the skies above Chile’s Atacama Desert near the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) La Silla Observatory shows bright red streaks in the sky known as red sprites. Red sprites ...

When astronomers look to planets outside Earth for the promise of life as we know it, they look to the habitable zone — a region neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water on the surface. Since ...

The BlackGEM array will search in visible light for mergers of black holes and neutron stars. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A ...

The BlackGEM array, consisting of three new telescopes located at ESO’s La Silla Observatory, has begun operations. The telescopes will scan the southern sky to hunt down the cosmic events that ...