One of the great things about astronomy is that it’s always full of surprises, especially when it comes to comets — you just ...

Scientists have uncovered the strongest evidence yet for the existence of elusive intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs), long ...

Black holes come in a range of sizes. Stellar mass black holes form from the collapse of massive stars, typically weighing ...

This paper reports the discovery of a high-velocity star J07 ejected from globular cluster M15 approximately 21 million years ...

As Bajaj puts it: "These James Webb Space Telescope data sets are so beautiful." ...

with 1 astronomical unit (AU) being the distance between the Earth and the Sun. For reference, Jupiter lies at 5.2 astronomical units, with the next planet, Saturn, at around 10 au. The smallest ...

Last week, the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors declared April 21-28 International Dark Sky Week. The proclamation ...

The team discovered many young stars hosting tiny protoplanetary disks, some not much thicker than the distance between Earth and the sun (an astronomical unit, or AU). "It is astonishing to ...

The Earth-sun distance (or astronomical unit) is also key to the baseline measurement for the parsec, used to measure the distance to the nearest stars. In a very real sense, Venus helped us ...