A near-perfect circle in a messy universe is a special find.” With those sentiments, astrophysicist Miroslav Filipović of ...

The exoplanet Wasp-121b orbits its star in a very close orbit. However, it originated much further away, as researchers have ...

Astronomers have discovered one of the most unusual planets in our Milky Way galaxy, orbiting at a 90° angle to the plane of the orbits of a pair of ...

A collision between our Milky Way galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, long considered inevitable, may be in question ...

Identifying ancient Chinese astronomical events represents a fascinating aspect of modern astrophysics. Chinese astronomers ...

Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral galaxies colliding is less than previously thought, with a ...

Astronomers have spotted something remarkable hiding in the depths of the Milky Way—a nearly perfect circle formed from the ...

Astronomers have spotted a supermassive black hole ripping apart and devouring a star in colliding galaxies. It is only the ...

By Wendell Roelf CAPE TOWN (Reuters) -Astronomers working with South Africa's SKA telescope are pushing authorities to ensure ...

After detecting the unusually bright signal, astronomers checked observations from another telescope, and found an unexpected ...

In the world of black holes, there are generally three size categories: stellar-mass black holes (about five to 50 times the ...

According to a new study published in the journal Nature, the object releases intense signals for two minutes every 44 ...