Astronomers have discovered a giant, 500-light-year-wide cavity between two star-forming regions in the constellations Perseus and Taurus. An ancient supernova could be the culprit.

A rather unassuming particle is playing an important role in the hunt for subatomic oddities. Similar to protons and neutrons ...

Astronomers may have caught a still-forming planet in action, carving out an intricate pattern in the gas and dust that ...

"The biggest surprise of all was that the black hole was not located inside either of the two nuclei but in the middle. We ...

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While astronomers expect many supernova remnants remain to be discovered, the fact that Teleios was spotted at all “is pure luck,” Filipović says. Had it been located closer to the galactic plane, ...

A star once thought empty was actually hiding a giant planet. New imaging and Gaia data exposed the surprising discovery of a ...