Using the Subaru Telescope's wide-field camera, astronomers have discovered a previously unknown structure surrounding a tiny satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. The newly discovered structure exhibits ...

Astronomers from India and Thailand have observed a young nearby open cluster known as Berkeley 59. Results of the observational campaign, published June 12 on the pre-print server arXiv, deliver ...

Galaxy mergers are fundamental events in the hierarchical assembly of structure, in which two or more gravitationally bound systems coalesce to form a single, more massive galaxy. Such interactions ...

Astronomers have recently made an exciting discovery: SN 2024abfl, a low-luminosity Type IIP supernova in the galaxy NGC 2146. This rare find is shedding new light on how stars explode and the ...

Close companions influence stellar evolution through tidal interactions, mass transfer and mass-loss effects. While such companions are detected around young stellar objects, main-sequence stars, red ...

In astrophysics, sometimes the seemingly most esoteric research is truly important. Stellar mass black holes are a case in point. Why should anyone care whether the galaxy is populated with stellar ...