Multi-band observations of NGC 3766, an open star cluster located about 5,500 light-years away in the constellation Centaurus, have yielded the discovery...
A new theoretical study of Earth-like exoplanets orbiting white dwarf stars, accepted for publication in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical...
According to an international team of astronomers, bright X-ray flares in nearby galaxies, once assumed to indicate the presence of black holes, can in...
European astronomers have reported results of a thirty-year study of a hypergiant star dubbed HR 8752 that passed through an evolutionary stage known as...
Astronomers have discovered an unexpected spiral structure in the gas around the red giant star R Sculptoris.
Observations using ALMA have revealed an...
Astronomers using ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory have discovered huge amounts of water vapor in a cold pre-stellar core in the constellation of Taurus...
Astronomers have announced the discovery of a remarkable star that orbits the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy in only 11.5 years –...
An international team of astronomers has reported the discovery of the strongest magnetic field ever found around a massive star.
This image shows the...
An international team of astrophysicists and astronomers has developed a new method for detecting galaxies of stars that formed during the first 180 million...
A team of European astrophysicists led by Dr Vardan Adibekyan of the Centro de Astrofísica da Universidade do Porto, Portugal, has found that metals like...
A team of astronomers at the University of Bonn in Germany has suggested that the four ultramassive stars, discovered two years ago and located in the...
A multinational team of researchers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope has discovered that almost three quarters of high-mass stars have close companions,...
For the first time ever, astronomers from NASA and the University of Tübingen in Germany have detected rare noble gases krypton and xenon in the spectrum...
An international team of astronomers has announced a baffling discovery never seen before: an extraordinary amount of dust around a nearby star mysteriously...
Astronomers working with the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope on Hawaii have discovered four pairs of stars that orbit each other in less than 4 hours.
This...
