At Armagh Observatory, Italian-born astronomer Dr. Stefano Bagnulo shares his lifelong passion for astronomy, his ...

Using powerful X-rays, researchers at SLAC are trying to recover erased traces of a 2,000-year-old star catalog that could ...

Black holes in the early Universe appear to have grown far faster than scientists once believed. Astronomers have long struggled to explain how black holes became enormous so early in the Universe’s ...

"Until now, it was unknown what type of star would remain after the merger." ...

In addition to shaping the interior of rocky planets, molten rock located deep within these planets may also contribute to ...

The night sky has long sparked wonder and curiosity. Early civilizations studied the stars and tracked celestial events, predicted eclipses and used their observations to construct calendars, develop ...

It’s one of astronomy’s great mysteries: how did black holes get so big, so massive, so quickly. An answer to this cosmic conundrum has now been provided by researchers at Ireland's Maynooth ...

The neural network approach uses multiple or “deep” layers that learn to identify increasingly complex features in data. The ...

Stargazers are about to have a chance to spot Saturn and the moon sharing a section of the night sky in what's known as a ...

Astronomers have captured the most dramatic view yet of a planet losing its atmosphere, watching the ultra-hot gas giant WASP ...

I have been writing about the Giant Magellan Telescope for a long time. Nearly two decades ago, for example, I wrote that ...