Astronomers from the University of Hawaiʻi's Institute for Astronomy (IfA) have discovered the most energetic cosmic ...

“ENTs are different beasts,” study lead author and astronomer Jason Hinkle explained in an accompanying statement. “Not only ...

In the heart of distant galaxies, astronomers have witnessed the most violent stellar death throes ever recorded.

Astronomers are stunned by a giant planet orbiting a tiny red dwarf star. This rare discovery defies existing theories and ...

A giant exoplanet is surprisingly chill given how close it is to its red dwarf star — perhaps because the star is so little.

Scientists have identified a new class of cosmic explosions, dubbed 'extreme nuclear transients' (ENTs), that represent the ...

An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new ultracompact binary of the AM CVn type exhibiting ...

TOI-6894 is one such star. Announced Wednesday in a paper for Nature Astronomy, the red dwarf is just 20% the mass of our Sun ...

For decades, scientists thought that stars much smaller than our Sun couldn't form giant planets. That theory just took a ...

What lies at the heart of a black hole has puzzled physicists for decades. Now, a team led by physicist Enrico Rinaldi has ...

Black holes are infamous for being invisible. But thanks to a new technique from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) team, ...

Supermassive black holes are some of the most powerful engines in the universe. These giants sit at the centers of galaxies, ...