R. Doradus, a star 180 light years away, boasts convection cells that can fit some 75 suns inside a single of its cells.
The newfound celestial body is the second-lightest planet discovered to date.
Priyamvada Natarajan's contributions in astronomy helped shed light into two major research interests in contemporary astrophysics - the origins of supermassive black holes, and mapping dark...
“This is the kind of discovery you make once in your research life," says Pasquale Panuzzo, an astronomer part of a study which discovered the most...
A recent study suggests that the binary star system, HD 148937, hosted a triplet of stars until a few millions of years ago.
Astronomers have identified the Milky Way’s earliest building blocks, “Shakti” and “Shiva”, the remnants of two galaxies that merged between 12 and 13 billion years ago...
A dwarf galaxy appears to have halted star formation. An astrophysicist believes current 'models based on the universe' need to be 'revisited'.
Massive stars in the Orion nebula exert intense radiation pressures to drive gas out from a young star system still forming planets.
A white dwarf star was spotted pulling up orbital debris, transfixing the metal fragments with its powerful magnetic field.
The neutron star detection was made possible with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) infrared detectors.
