Astronomers have captured images of two stellar explosions—known as novae—within days of their eruption and in unprecedented ...

The Very Large Telescope's SPHERE instrument captured unprecedented images of 51 dusty rings shaping young planetary systems.

SPHERE’s detailed images of dusty rings around young stars offer a rare glimpse into the hidden machinery of planet formation ...

Galaxies like our Milky Way grew through cascading mergers of smaller galaxies that began billions of years ago. The ancient ...

The Geminid meteor shower is active from Dec. 4 and hits its peak on the night of Dec. 13-14.

Researchers used the MIRI instrument onboard the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to identify the presence of ultraviolet ...

The universe teems with systems of two stars orbiting each other in a seemingly endless cosmic dance. Scientists have long hypothesized that one out of three massive stars in these binaries have their ...

Astronomy studies celestial objects and phenomena beyond Earth. Astronomy degrees offer specializations like cosmology, planetary science, and stellar astrophysics. Astronomers use telescopes, math, ...

New multi-temperature coronal mass ejection observations might help us better understand how life emerged and evolved on Earth ...

How a medieval Oxford friar used light and color to find out what stars and planets are made of ...

December nights are the longest — and often some of the coldest — of the year. While some may dread December’s darkness, ...

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