A giant ‘hiccuping’ star in its final stages before exploding has been spotted by a team of international astronomers. The ...

When you wish upon a star, Jiminy Cricket told us, your dreams come true. But according to an idea doing the rounds on social ...

An international team of researchers has detected a binary star orbiting close to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole ...

Galaxy clusters—the big cities of the universe—are home to many giant elliptical galaxies that have completed their growth ...

By Françoise Combes - Astrophysicist at the Paris Observatory A new analysis of radiotelescope data links the shapes of ...

Was planetary formation different during the early universe than today? This is what a recent study published in The ...

A gamma-ray flare from a black hole 6.5 billion times the Sun’s mass leaves scientists stunned.

Binary stars can’t survive long near the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole — but for the first time, astronomers have ...

Scientists have spotted what appear to be two stars whipping around each other near the supermassive black hole at the center ...

X-rays are radiated by matter hotter than one million Kelvin, and high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy can tell us about the ...

After taking the first images of black holes, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is poised to reveal how black holes launch ...