Study provides new insights into the universe's most powerful explosions

A new study provides detailed insight into the most powerful explosions in the universe

For the first time astronomers, including Dr Richard Parker, of the Astrophysics Research Institute at LJMU, have caught…

More than 40,000 amateur astronomers have classified two million unidentified heavenly bodies found by the SkyMapper tel…

A team of five astronomers from Chalmers University of Technology have revealed an extremely powerful magnetic field, be…

The galaxy highlighted in the study, known as IRAS F11119+3257, has an actively growing supermassive black hole at its c…

New research provides revelations about the most energetic event in the universe — the merging of two spinning, orbiting…

APEX and Effelsberg observations explain bright outburst in 17th Century caused by stellar collision

In 1670 a new star appeared in the sky, which could even be seen with the naked eye. It was not a nova, but a much rarer…

The “information loss paradox” in black holes — a problem that has plagued physics for nearly 40 years — may not exist

The paper outlines how interactions between particles emitted by a black hole can reveal information about what lies wit…

A new mechanism explains the strange orbit of suns in elliptical galactic systems

Elliptical galaxies form when at least two disk galaxies collide with each other and coalesce. Unusual things may happen…

By combining observations of the distant universe made with telescopes in Arizona as well as the European Space Agency's…

Caltech and UC Santa Cruz Researchers Say Earth Belongs to a Second Generation of Planets

Long before Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars formed, it seems that the inner solar system may have harbored a number of s…

UCLA astronomer is part of international team that discovered remarkable star cluster

More than a million young stars are forming in a hot, dusty cloud of molecular gases in a tiny galaxy near our own, an i…

An international team of astronomers has found a huge and ancient black hole which was powering the brightest object ear…

Study explains why galaxies don’t churn out as many stars as they should.

A handful of new stars are born each year in the Milky Way, while many more blink on across the universe. But astronomer…

A team of astronomers from the University of Cambridge have identified nine new dwarf satellites orbiting the Milky Way,…

Some of the galaxies in our universe are veritable star nurseries. For example, our own Milky Way produces, on average,…

A report published in Science has dismissed claims made last year that the first super-Earth planet discovered in the ha…

New research by UCLA physicists, published in the journal Physical Review Letters, offers a possible solution to the mys…

UCLA scientist says finding, using multiple images that reached Earth at different times, advances the understanding of dark matter

The galaxy cluster is so large that its gravity bends and intensifies the light from the supernova, which resides roughl…

Astronomers identify the closest known flyby of a star to our solar system: a dim star that passed through the Oort Cloud 70,000 years ago

A group of astronomers from the US, Europe, Chile and South Africa have determined that 70,000 years ago a recently disc…