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…

This week an international team of astronomers reports the first multiple-star system to be observed during the earliest…

Astronomer Eric Mamajek at the University of Rochester and his co-author from the Leiden Observatory, The Netherlands, h…

A study by astrophysicists at the University of Toronto suggests that exoplanets – planets outside our solar system – ar…

Scientists have located an ancient solar system, dating back to the dawn of the galaxy, which appears to be a miniature…

Cosmic particle accelerators, mostly supernova remnants and pulsar wind nebulas, i.e. end products of massive stars, are…

Lasting only milliseconds, the first such radio burst was discovered in 2007 by astronomers combing the Parkes data arch…

Astronomers have been able to peer back to the young Universe to determine how quasars – powered by supermassive black h…

In an interstellar race against time, astronomers have measured the space-time warp in the gravity of a binary star and…

The central regions of many glittering galaxies, our own Milky Way included, harbor cores of impenetrable darkness—black…

A University of Southampton researcher has helped solve a long-standing space mystery – the origin of the ‘theta aurora’.

The mystery was finally solved by studying data collected simultaneously by the European Space Agency’s Cluster and NASA…

A new paper, co-authored by University of Notre Dame astrophysicist Joseph Bramante, discusses how detecting imploding p…

International team of researchers uses laser light and intense magnetic fields to simulate astrophysical jets in the lab

International team of researchers uses laser light and intense magnetic fields to simulate astrophysical jets in the lab

A team led by the University of Colorado Boulder has discovered an invisible shield some 7,200 miles above Earth that bl…