NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Astronomers have been watching a small constellation in the night sky, waiting for a nearby binary star system to explode. The wait may finally be over ...

Using the ROentgen SATellite (ROSAT), astronomers have discovered a new cataclysmic variable system of the polar subtype. The new polar, which received the designation ZTF J0112+5827, has an ...

(CNN) – Astronomers have made a surprising discovery about oxygen and elements in the most distant known galaxy. The galaxy is called Jades GSZ 14 0. It’s more than 13 billion lightyears away ...

Marenfeld under CC BY 4.0 For decades, astronomers have probed the space around Barnard’s Star in search of exoplanets. As our cosmic neighbor—the nearest single-star system to our sun—it ...

Astronomers have performed a multiwavelength study of nine open cluster candidates. As a result, they found that all of them are genuine open clusters and characterized by their fundamental ...

“Euclid has already taken images of several times more sky than Hubble did in 25 years,” says Mike Walmsley, a machine learning researcher focused on astronomy, and Euclid Consortium ...

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array — a group of dozens of radio telescopes in the Chilean desert and the largest astronomical project in existence — astronomers were able ...

That said, to aid astronomers looking to do similar planetary formation analyses in the future, the work also provides a statistical framework for inferring the total mass of solid accretion for ...

Mar. 13, 2025 — Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's ...

Astronomers have discovered more than 300 exoplanetary systems that have three or more known planets. Most of these planets are about the same size and spaced close together, earning them the ...

Handout of an artist’s impression of Jades-GS-z14-0, which as of today is the most distant confirmed galaxy (PA) Astronomers have said the Universe may have developed “much faster than was ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is no longer headed for Earth, but the fear it caused has astronomers worried about scare tones in the media. The asteroid initially had an approximate 3% chance for impact with ...