Enabled by supercomputing, University of Pretoria (UP) researchers have led an international team of astronomers that has ...

New data reveals a 3-million-light-year filament connecting two galaxies, each of which hosts a supermassive black hole.

Dragonflies aren’t just fast—they have brainpower that rivals some of the most advanced technology! Scientists are fascinated ...

A technique called sonification allows new discoveries, brings out subtleties in dense data, and makes astronomy more accessible.

UC Irvine astronomers used a 3D global computer model to compare the climates of exoplanets in different stellar and orbital configurations. They found that a planet orbiting a white dwarf star would ...

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

Astronomers have been able to image gas as it travels down a 3 million light-year-long cosmic highway between two growing ...

Explore Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system, and discover its remarkable ancient ocean and ice-rich crust.

Non-mixing layers of water and hydrocarbons thousands of miles deep could explain the icy planets’ strange magnetic fields.