Astronomers observed a heart-shaped gas and dust cloud around red giant Mira A before Valentine’s Day, using data from ESO’s Very Large Telescope and ALMA in Chile.

"We were very surprised to see this structure," said astrophysicist Theo Khouri of Sweden’s Chalmers University of Technology.

Astronomers have been struggling to explain mysterious repeating bright radio pulses with unusually long periods. New ...

Cosmic relationships in space mirror human connections, with some stars locked in destructive, codependent partnerships. Binary systems featuring white dwarfs often exhibit this imbalance, where one ...

On Wednesday, 11 February 2026, the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) awarded the Johann Wempe Prize to Dr Sebastian Kamann from Liverpool John Moores University for his outstanding ...

Scientists have named newly detected merging supermassive black holes after ’Lord of the Rings’ locations, using gravitational wave data and quasar observations to map their mergers.

Our project will increase the spatial resolution reachable in the optical by thousands, opening new fields of investigation in astronomy in general. For instance, images could be obtained of the ...

Using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, Chinese astronomers have observed a gamma-ray binary system known as PSR ...

In 2014, a NASA telescope observed that the infrared light emitted by a massive star in the Andromeda galaxy gradually grew brighter. The star glowed more intensely with infrared light for around ...

Astronomers tracked a star in Andromeda as it dimmed and vanished without the usual fiery explosion, offering rare clues to ...

General relativity helps explain the lack of planets around tight binary stars by driving orbital resonances that eject or destroy close-in worlds. This process naturally creates a “desert” of ...

Researchers propose a new technique to identify supermassive black hole binaries through gravitational lensing causing ...