This week an international team of astronomers reports the first multiple-star system to be observed during the earliest…

Astronomer Eric Mamajek at the University of Rochester and his co-author from the Leiden Observatory, The Netherlands, h…

A study by astrophysicists at the University of Toronto suggests that exoplanets – planets outside our solar system – ar…

Scientists have located an ancient solar system, dating back to the dawn of the galaxy, which appears to be a miniature…

Cosmic particle accelerators, mostly supernova remnants and pulsar wind nebulas, i.e. end products of massive stars, are…

Lasting only milliseconds, the first such radio burst was discovered in 2007 by astronomers combing the Parkes data arch…

Astronomers have been able to peer back to the young Universe to determine how quasars – powered by supermassive black h…

In an interstellar race against time, astronomers have measured the space-time warp in the gravity of a binary star and…

The central regions of many glittering galaxies, our own Milky Way included, harbor cores of impenetrable darkness—black…

A University of Southampton researcher has helped solve a long-standing space mystery – the origin of the ‘theta aurora’.

The mystery was finally solved by studying data collected simultaneously by the European Space Agency’s Cluster and NASA…

A new paper, co-authored by University of Notre Dame astrophysicist Joseph Bramante, discusses how detecting imploding p…

International team of researchers uses laser light and intense magnetic fields to simulate astrophysical jets in the lab

International team of researchers uses laser light and intense magnetic fields to simulate astrophysical jets in the lab

A team led by the University of Colorado Boulder has discovered an invisible shield some 7,200 miles above Earth that bl…

UMass Amherst, Mexican astronomers develop new model of star formation

Astronomers working to estimate the rate of star formation inside murky distant galaxies, those shrouded in dust clouds…

UC Riverside-led team proposes that filaments in the cosmic web played a critical role in the distant universe

How do galaxies like our Milky Way form, and just how do they evolve? Are galaxies affected by their surrounding enviro…

With the help of citizen scientists, a research team that includes University of Maryland astronomers has found an impor…

One of the major problems in astronomy is measuring very large distances in the universe. The current most common method…

During a nine-day test in February 2014 Kepler detected a single planetary transit. The newfound planet, HIP 116454b, ha…

Scientists have observed in precise detail the stripping of gas from a distant galaxy as they seek to understand what sh…

For the first time researchers have measured large distances in the Universe using data, rather than calculations relate…