A record-bright LFBOT exposes violent encounters between black holes and stars, helping astronomers understand extreme black ...

Leading X-ray space telescopes XMM-Newton and XRISM have spotted a never-seen-before blast from a supermassive black hole. In ...

In a remarkable breakthrough published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, an international team of astronomers using ...

Black holes have long captured the imagination of both scientists and the general public. These exotic objects—once thought ...

In 2025, astronomers sharpened their view of the planetary system around Proxima Centauri — the sun's closest stellar ...

One story rose above all the others — new and older telescopes are putting us on the cusp of monumental discoveries about our universe.

Astronomers have decoded the hidden past of a distant red giant star by listening to tiny vibrations in its light, revealing ...

Astronomers found signs of a past stellar collision in a red giant orbiting a dormant black hole. Starquakes show the star is ...

Scientists around the world are confronting unexpected radio silence and puzzling measurements from interstellar object ...

When black holes collide, the impact radiates into space like the sound of a bell in the form of gravitational waves. But ...

Using Georgia State’s CHARA Array, an international team of scientists has uncovered unexpected complexity in how stars ...

In any other year, the supermassive black hole mentioned above would probably scoop the award for most striking outburst, but not in 2025. This year, that accolade goes to a flare designated ...