Three runaway stars solved a galactic mystery; hypervelocity stars reveal Large Magellanic Cloud's orbital path and supermassive black hole location ...

JWST may have found the 1st stars in the universe; Population III stars detected in galaxy LAP1-B seen 800 million ...

Negative magnitudes of astronomical objects explained; why brighter celestial bodies have negative numbers in magnitude scale from Hipparchus to modern ...

Balloon telescope captures new details of matter swirling around black holes; XL-Calibur measures polarization revealing dynamics near Cygnus X-1 event ...

Exoplanets in the remnants of a dwarf galaxy; VOYAGERS survey searches for planets around ancient low-metallicity stars from merged Gaia-Enceladus ...

Solar system is moving 3x faster than expected—new radio galaxy analysis reveals major deviation from standard cosmology challenging fundamental assumptions. ...

Scientists create key to find alien life in clouds—new reflectance spectra of atmospheric microbes enable detection of biosignatures on cloud-covered ...

Cosmic ray puzzle resolved; LHAASO discovers micro-quasars powered by black holes are source of mysterious cosmic ray "knee" detected for ...

Is the Universe slowing down? New evidence suggests cosmic expansion has entered deceleration phase—dark energy may be weakening faster than ...

Life in the clouds on other worlds may be detectable through colorful biopigments; new study reveals how atmospheric microorganisms could ...