The first pulsar was discovered in 1967 by Jocelyn Bell Burnell. Finding these mysterious signals forever changed astronomy.

A Texas Tech Assistant Astronomy Professor, Elias Aydi, along with other astronomers, used a cutting-edge technique to ...

Texas Tech assistant professor Elias Aydi led an international team of astronomers in publishing new findings on how stellar explosions, called novae, unfold. Using a high-resolution imaging technique ...

Among the more puzzling cosmic phenomena discovered over the past few decades are brief and very bright flashes of blue and ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope report that a powerful gamma-ray burst detected in March may have been ...

The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are irregular dwarf galaxies and satellites of the Milky Way. The LMC is about 163,000 ...

New technology is helping astronomers open new windows into novae, stellar explosions that can act as 'laboratories for ...

Working with the CHARA Array, astronomers have captured images of two stellar explosions — known as novae — within days of ...

Astrophysicists have achieved an eye-opening leap in understanding stellar death, capturing unprecedented, detailed images of ...

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to discover that a distant "hot Jupiter" planet has two ...

A classical nova may look simple at first. A faint star brightens, sometimes enough for you to spot without a telescope, then ...

Astronomers have observed a star wobbling in its orbit around a ravenous supermassive black hole that is ripping it apart and ...