Using archival data from NASA’s NEOWISE mission along with data from other space and ground-based observatories, astronomers identified the clearest observational record yet of a massive star fading ...

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For decades, scientists have theorized that the Milky Way Galaxy’s supermassive black hole, known as Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), ...

An exoplanetary system about 116 light-years from Earth could flip the script on how planets form, according to researchers ...

Rays of light beam from a mass of dust, glancing off banks of cloud 1,000 light years from Earth. The nebula glows not ...

A faint flash of infrared light in the Andromeda galaxy was emitted at the birth of a stellar-mass black hole – according to a team of astronomers in the US. Kishalay De at Columbia University and the ...

NASA’s NEOWISE archival data tracks a massive star in Andromeda fading quietly into a black hole, providing detailed observations of stellar collapse and gas expulsion from 2005 to 2023.

Astronomers had gazed into that piece of space many times. This time, however, the James Webb Space Telescope, equipped with ...

Astronomers tracked a star in Andromeda as it dimmed and vanished without the usual fiery explosion, offering rare clues to ...

Astronomers have watched a dying star fail to explode as a supernova, instead collapsing into a black hole. The remarkable sighting is the most complete observational record ever made of a star's ...

A shimmering blue dwarf galaxy called Markarian 178 glows just 13 million light-years away, packed with hot young stars and rare stellar heavyweights. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, F. Annibali, S. Hong A ...