Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered that aging stars in their so-called ...

Created using data from two extensive surveys, this spectacular radio image of the galactic plane of the Milky Way provides valuable insights into the birth and death of stars.

Frozen complex organic molecules have been discovered for the first time around a young protostar in a galaxy other than our ...

A ‘superflare’ 10 trillion times brighter than the Sun is confirmed as the record-holder for both luminosity and distance.

Astronomers spotted the largest flare ever released from a supermassive black hole as it snacked on a giant star.

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

Researchers have believed that Segue 1, a puny galaxy orbiting the Milky Way just 75,000 light-years away, was packed with dark matter, a substance in space that doesn't shine or interact with light.

The most massive stars in the universe are destined to explode as brilliant supernova before collapsing into black holes. Yet ...

Barnard’s Star has the fastest known proper motion across the night sky of any star, traversing an angular distance equivalent to the width of the Full Moon roughly every 180 years. Three different ...

Astronomers have discovered phosphine gas in the atmosphere of an ancient brown dwarf, Wolf 1130C, using the James Webb Space ...

For Astronomy magazine's 15th annual compilation of Star Products, we've once again explored the vast astronomical marketplace to handpick the finest, most innovative, and most practical gear for ...