Meng Dezhao, a Ph.D. student from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with his ...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope confirmed the existence of a companion star orbiting Betelgeuse, ...

What can white dwarf stars eating their own planets teach astronomers about planetary and solar system formation and ...

Indian astronomers have discovered how supermassive black holes and their powerful jets regulate galaxy growth by halting ...

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) have pieced together a key part of the galaxy evolution puzzle, explaining why some galaxies cease forming new stars while others continue to ...

Our galaxy's most abundant type of planet could be rich in liquid water due to formative interactions between magma oceans ...

Keck Observatory and Subaru Telescope on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island, have discovered a brown dwarf companion orbiting a nearby ...

How do moons form around gas giant planets? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes ...

AGN are bright centres of galaxies powered by matter falling into supermassive black holes, which are millions of times more ...

New results from an international team including UBC astrophysicists highlight the first black hole observed to be spinning ...

New experimental work demonstrates that large quantities of water are created as a natural consequence of planet formation.

The James Webb Space Telescope spacecraft is located 5 degrees below the Pleiades star. As the month wears on, it travels ...