Astronomers using NASA’s IXPE satellite have finally cracked a cosmic mystery—how X-rays are produced in the energetic jets ...

A nova differs from a supernova, which is an explosion that destroys dying stars, NASA explains. During a nova event, the ...

The blazar BL Lacertae, a supermassive black hole surrounded by a bright disk and jets oriented toward Earth, provided ...

Using the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Very Large Array, astronomers have revealed for the first time the huge flow ...

Stellar black holes, these cosmic monsters born from the collapse of massive stars, play a key role in galaxy dynamics. A ...

More than half of Fermi’s discoveries have been blazars, a specific type of AGN whose jets of particles are pointed almost ...

Stars have long inspired curiosity among observers, but our understanding of their birth and the creation of planets around ...

Norman Astronomers have unlocked the sharpest visual yet of planets beginning to form within young solar systems. Using the ...

A new discovery is changing how scientists think about how stars and planets are formed. When a star is born, it’s usually ...

It’s a pretty fundamental question in terms of the origin of complex matter in the universe,” Anirudh Patel said in a NASA ...

Using the Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) onboard the International Space Station (ISS), astronomers have ...