Scientists observed a spinning black hole dragging space and time as it tore apart a star, confirming a key prediction of Einstein’s theory of relativity ...

Researchers at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy (IfA) are helping reshape how scientists study the Sun.

For the first time, astronomers have captured the brilliance of a superluminous supernova via gravitational lensing.

The surprisingly high amounts of chlorine and potassium in a supernova remnant could help solve the mystery of where these ...

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

The cosmos has served up a gift for a group of scientists who have been searching for one of the most elusive phenomena in ...

For much of the twentieth century, scientists expected the expanding universe to slow over time. The opposite turned out to ...

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

Texas Tech assistant professor Elias Aydi led an international team of astronomers in publishing new findings on how stellar explosions, called novae, unfold. Using a high-resolution imaging technique ...

Astronomers have long been concerned about reflections from satellites showing up in images taken by telescopes and other ...

Astronomers have captured the most detailed close-up images ever taken of stars exploding, known as novae. These pictures ...

The enigmatic Maya calendar synchronizes all visible planets, thus solving an astronomical puzzle that had remained unsolved ...