In a study published in the Astrophysical Journal, a team of researchers led by Kristen McQuinn, a scientist at the Space ...

A close encounter with a mysterious interstellar object could explain the current orbits of several of Earth’s largest ...

"There are still many things related to planetary formation and the early evolution of young planetary systems that we don't ...

The name "blue lurker" might sound like a villainous character from a superhero movie. But it is a rare class of star that ...

Recent discoveries by the James Webb Space Telescope reveal that supermassive black holes were present much earlier than ...

A rare group of aligned, star-birthing dwarf galaxies resemble a cosmic string of pearls. Astronomers have discovered a rare ...

A star's core is the extremely ... in particular between 10 and 15 solar masses. In terms of gravitational waves, the gap is expected as a dip in the "chirp mass" of the binary pair.

However, although many DSFGs are known, their nuclear structure, which can be essential to better understand the evolution ... trillion solar luminosities. The galaxy has a stellar mass of about ...

In 2021, the probe became the first mission to fly through the Sun’s corona, or the star’s upper atmosphere. Parker Solar Probe travelled dramatically through a coronal mass ejection (CME), an ...