Scientists explain how rare bright blue cosmic flashes form when black holes tear apart massive stars, based on new observations of the event AT 2024wpp and similar fast blue optical transients ...

"The sheer amount of radiated energy from these bursts is so large that you can't power them with a core collapse stellar explosion — or any other type of normal stellar explosion." ...

Imagine predicting an entire planet's existence with nothing but math, and then finding it right where the numbers ...

"Virgil has two personalities, its 'good' side – a typical young galaxy quietly forming stars. But Virgil transforms into the host of a heavily obscured supermassive black hole, pouring out immense ...

Colonial American astronomer John Winthrop was born on Dec. 19, 1714. After graduating at the top of his class from Harvard ...

Although this controversy might be specific to Chile, home to 40 percent of the world’s astronomy infrastructure, the project ...

Former University of Iowa employee Brian Busch will be placed on probation following a guilty plea on theft and fraud charges ...

Bob Benjamin is an ORHS Class of 1983 alumnus who has tirelessly worked to figure out what the Milky Way looks like.

A long-standing physics mystery has been solved with the discovery of emergent photon-like behavior inside a strange quantum ...

Astronomers call them LFBOTs—rare and powerful bursts of blue light that shine across billions of light-years and then vanish ...

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From the moment she looked through a telescope, Marissa Norlund knew she was an observational astronomer.