When Anastasios Tzanidakis was sifting through some older telescope observations, he stumbled across something that should ...
Astronomers have uncovered evidence of a dramatic cosmic crash unfolding around a distant star. While reviewing archived ...
Scientists have uncovered the first robust evidence of a black hole and neutron star crashing together but orbiting in an ...
An international research team led by Chinese scientists has discovered new evidence about Type II-P supernovae, suggesting ...
Anastasios (Andy) Tzanidakis was combing through old telescope data from 2020 when he found an otherwise boring star acting ...
Astronomers have caught what may be a rare cosmic catastrophe unfolding 11,000 light-years away. A seemingly ordinary ...
In November 2024, gravitational-wave detectors recorded the violent merger of two black holes billions ...
As binary neutron stars spiral around each other to merge, their gravitational tidal forces distort each other's shape and ...
Billions of light years away in a remote part of the universe, two neutron stars – the ultradense remnants of dead stars – collided. The catastropic cosmic event sent light and particles, including a ...
A mysterious bow shock around the white dwarf RXJ0528+2838 is challenging astronomers’ understanding of how dead stars ...
Chinese astronomers have found a pair of young star clusters formed within a circumgalactic high-velocity cloud on the outskirts of the Milky Way—the first direct evidence of star formation in such an ...