ESA's Gaia mission, the Very Large Telescope and other ground-based telescopes have discovered stellar black hole Gaia BH3.

Credit: NASA/ESA Spring is almost here, which means it's galaxy season for amateur astronomers! Grab your telescope and join ...

Chinese astronomers have found a pair of young star clusters formed within a circumgalactic high-velocity cloud on the outskirts of the Milky Way—the first direct evidence of star formation in such an ...

A seemingly regular, Sun-like star began acting really weird, flickering haphazardly as its light faded in and out. The cause of the star’s strange behavior may have been a cosmic catastrophe that’s ...

Bangladesh has growing academic interest in astrophysics but lacks the infrastructure for observational research ...

JWST reveals "monster stars" that could be the origin of the universe's first giant black holes, an astonishing discovery.

Despite years of debate and follow-up studies, an odd streak of cosmic light still defies a final explanation. Is it a giant ...

The new MOTHRA telescope hopes to reveal the “cosmic web”, which huge network of gas and dark matter that connects galaxies across the cosmos. It aims to do so by using a specific kind of telescope – ...

Astronomers have found that both the core of our Milky Way and the earliest proto-galaxies in the universe share a surprising ...

This violent fate is rare: fewer than about 1% of stars are big enough to end their lives this way. Indeed, these dramatic explosions only occur in so-called “massive stars”. These are stars with a ...

MOTHRA observing at night. Each mount is equipped with a wide area web cam. Besides the mount in the foreground two others are visible. The skies at El Sauce Observatory in Chile ...

A fleet of NASA missions has likely uncovered a collision between two ultradense stars in a tiny galaxy buried in a huge ...