Anastasios (Andy) Tzanidakis was combing through old telescope data from 2020 when he found an otherwise boring star acting very strangely. The star, named Gaia20ehk, was about 11,000 light-years from ...

A new image captured by the Very Large Telescope reveals stars and gas orbiting the "invisible giant" at the heart of our galaxy.

Merging black holes and neutron stars have unusual oval orbits prior to colliding and merging, which challenge the laws of physics.

Astronomers have for the first time seen the birth of a magnetar—a highly magnetized, spinning neutron star—and confirmed that it's the power source behind some of the brightest exploding stars in the ...

NASA has disqualified one of the two proposals for a large astrophysics mission, a decision the project’s leader blames on ...

Space scientist Maggie Aderin talks telescopes, neurodiversity and being underestimated with Rowan Hooper on the New ...

Analysis reveals what appears to be a channel of hot, low-density plasma stretching out from our solar system toward distant ...

New high-resolution simulations reveal that stellar rotation plays a crucial role in transporting material inside red giant stars.

War Machine imagines a machine arriving from space. Real astronomy has detected interstellar visitors like ʻOumuamua, 2I/Borisov and 3I/ATLAS.

Astronomers have finally captured an image of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. Because black holes emit no light and appear extremely small from Earth, ...

Paul Howarth, president of the Institute of Physics, says ‘constructive dialogue’ with the government is needed, or the country risks losing the next generation of scientists.

An Aztec artifact known as the Bilimek sculpture offers insight into how ancient Mesoamerican cultures interpreted solar eclipses. The object, believed to be a ceremonial vessel used for drinking ...