New research is shedding light on what researchers call "lite" intermediate-mass black holes, which are smaller, but still ...

Astronomers have observed an object that originated from beyond our solar system, thought to be an interstellar comet, ...

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...

New observations show a star that blew up in two separate bursts, confirming a long-suspected cosmic phenomenon called a ...

Astronomers capture first image of a white dwarf exploding twice in space Rare double-detonation seen in supernova remnant ...

Astrophysicist Josep Trigo-Rodriguez of the Institute of Space Sciences near Barcelona, Spain, believes it is an interstellar ...

"This tangible evidence of a double detonation not only contributes towards solving a long-standing mystery, but also offers ...

Astronomers have finally caught a dying star in space going out with a bang — and then another bang. The new photographic ...

"We have discovered a galaxy that has been 'perfectly preserved' for billions of years, a true archaeological find that tells ...

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Other astronomers had observed Uranus before but thought it was a star. When Herschel observed it with a telescope he designed and built himself, he realized that in fact is was the seventh planet ...

An "interstellar object" is speeding toward the inner solar system, where Earth is located, astronomers have confirmed.