New research is shedding light on what researchers call "lite" intermediate-mass black holes, which are smaller, but still ...

New observations show a star that blew up in two separate bursts, confirming a long-suspected cosmic phenomenon called a ...

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Astronomers have captured a stunning, detailed image of the nearby Sculptor galaxy, spanning an impressive 65,000 light years ...

The Gemini South telescope in Chile has been used by astronomers to detect a planet being devoured by its dying host star, a ...

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Astronomers are monitoring an object headed our way that may have wandered over from another star system. Scientists have ...

Astronomers from the University of Turku have detected quasi-periodic oscillations in an X-ray binary, XTE J0111.2−7317, ...

Scientists say the Universe has no edge, but that doesn't mean it's infinite. A Manchester astrophysicist explains what we ...

Chile's Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which boasts the world's largest digital camera, has begun displaying its first images of ...

Astronomers have confirmed that a recently spotted object is an interstellar visitor, and appears to have come from the ...

NASA confirms that asteroid 2025 MW91, estimated to be 140 feet across, will make its closest approach on 5 July.