The findings are courtesy of the Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA) array, which is an optical ...

Astronomers have produced the first continuous, two-dimensional maps of the outer edge of the sun's atmosphere, a shifting, ...

Compelling evidence that the structure of matter surrounding supermassive black holes has changed over cosmic time has been ...

"We might lose the ability to observe about 30% of the faintest galaxies. We are at the point of starting to be able to see ...

“The fact that we can now watch stars explode and immediately see the structure of the material being blasted into space is ...

A Star Trek–inspired idea by Miguel Alcubierre kicked off decades of theory and experiments as scientists pursue plausible ...

The winter solstice varies by year, between Dec. 20 and Dec. 23. It marks the shortest day and longest night in the Northern ...

Astronomers are learning more about the origins of supermassive black holes after new data is revealed from a 20-year-long ...

At that point, the flare was shining as bright as 10 trillion suns and carried the energy equivalent of a star completely ...

The exoplanet, discovered by Northwestern University astronomers, orbits two suns exactly like Luke Skywalker's fictional ...

Burst from M-dwarf star could be powerful enough to strip the atmosphere of any planets that orbit it, with implications for ...

Most of the universe is made up of dark matter and dark energy. The majority of everything else is dispersed throughout space ...