A star you can see with the naked eye has kept astronomers guessing for decades with its unusually powerful X-rays. Now, ...

One of the things astronomers find when they look around at galaxies is a correlation between a galaxy's mass and the mass of its supermassive black hole. Contrary to popular belief, these SMBH don't ...

Petela, R. and Biel, J. (2026) Radiation from Proxima Centauri Reaching Its Planet Proxima b. International Journal of ...

Teledyne Space Imaging, part of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (NYSE:TDY), has been awarded a contract by Schmidt Sciences to deliver advanced near-infrared (NIR) H4RG-10 flight focal plane arrays ...

Elon Musk chose a strange time to become extremely online: in the mid-2010s, just as public trust in the platforms was eroding. Then, he chose a strange time to purchase a platfor ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has uncovered a pair of dwarf galaxies with black holes that defy conventional understanding. These black holes, located in galaxies with masses far smaller than ...

A new generation instrument designed to probe the atmospheres of distant worlds is nearing operational readiness, marking a ...

An X1.4 solar flare triggered radio blackouts and launched a fast CME as NASA prepares for its Artemis 2 moon mission.

Scientists have discovered an ultra-compact quadruple star system where three stars fit within Mercury's orbit.

Pulsars are ultra-dense, rapidly spinning, and highly magnetized remnants of dead stars. They act like cosmic lighthouses, ...

Astronomers use AI to classify white dwarfs and uncover rare stars with shifting surfaces and unusual chemistry.

The findings, published in The Astrophysical Journal, provide fresh insights into ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) — among the brightest and most enigmatic objects known in astrophysics.