Brown dwarf stars host powerful aurora displays just like planets, astronomers have discovered.

The so-called failed stars, which are difficult to detect and also remain hard to classify, are too massive to be planet…

New images of deep space are helping to shed light on dark matter, the invisible material that accounts for more than 80…

An older geomagnetic field suggests an early start to plate tectonics

The directional information is stored in microscopic grains inside magnetite- a naturally occurring magnetic iron oxide.…

A team of astronomers led by Caltech has discovered a giant swirling disk of gas 10 billion light-years away—a galaxy-in…

Scientists at the University of Basel were able to identify for the first time a molecule responsible for the absorption…

Astronomers from the Niels Bohr Institute have observed a super-bright supernova association with a very unusual long la…

Led by Stony Brook's Jin Koda, PhD, the discovery surpasses the 2014 find by more than 800

The Subaru Telescope revealed that these dark galaxies contain old stellar populations and shows a spatial distribution…

Physicists at the University of York have revealed a new understanding of nucleosynthesis in stars, providing insight in…

Circinus X-1 is a freak of the Milky Way. Located in the plane of the galaxy, Circinus X-1 is the glowing husk of a bina…

Astronomers have long known that powerful cosmic winds can sometimes blow through galaxies, sweeping out interstellar ma…

The researchers collected observations ranging from the energetic X-ray and UV all the way to the radio wavelengths, the…

Astronomers have spotted a super-sized black hole in the early universe that grew much faster than its host galaxy

The system, named Gaia14aae, is located about 730 light years away in the Draco constellation. It was discovered by

Astronomers have discovered a disc of planetary debris surrounding a young sun-like star that shares remarkable similari…

To sort out the biological intricacies of Earth-like planets, astronomers have developed computer models that examine ho…

Astronomers are predicting a close encounter between a stellar remnant the size of a city and one of the brightest stars in the Milky Way.

Astronomers are predicting a close encounter between a stellar remnant the size of a city and one of the brightest stars…

Depicted in an image by Mark Garlick and issued by the University of Warwick, it has been suggested that low-mass exopla…

Fast-moving magnetic waves emanating from a distant supermassive black hole undulate like a whip whose handle is being s…

UC Riverside astronomers confirm discovery of CR7, the brightest distant galaxy, and signs of Population III stars

These massive, brilliant, and previously purely theoretical stars were the creators of the first heavy elements in histo…

The universe can be a very sticky place, but just how sticky is a matter of debate. That is because for decades cosmolog…