Astronomers working with the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected patterns showing ...

Very massive stars are cosmic "rock stars" that live fast, die young and leave black holes in their place. During this ...

Five young stars found in Chamaeleon using ATCA radio observations One star, J11061540−7721567, may be a 40-year-period ...

The newly observed binary system features a cataclysmic variable star, designated GOTO0650, which is in a rarely seen late stage of its evolution. This was also the first major discovery for the ...

Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

A cataclysmic variable star was found as part of a project using two telescopes from opposite sides of the world.

These black holes are the most distant and stable objects we know. Using a technique called very long baseline interferometry ...

"This work is a step toward understanding how quantum mechanics and gravity work together, a major unsolved problem in ...

Could the Universe have been born inside a black hole? This question, raised by a team of scientists, challenges the Big Bang ...

The scientists who precisely measure the position of Earth are in a bit of trouble. Their measurements are essential for the ...

A newly discovered radio halo, 10 billion light-years away, reveals that galaxy clusters in the early universe were already steeped in high-energy particles. The finding hints at ancient black hole ...

A pair of stars orbiting one another has been found near the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* using the European ...