The Einstein Probe space telescope has captured a powerful X-ray outburst from a nearby K-type star, offering a rare, ...

Researchers from the Purple Mountain Observatory (PMO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics have proposed a new method to measure moderately saturated ...

A star’s fatal brush with a supermassive black hole can light up a quiet galaxy. When gravity shreds the star, its gas ...

After a distant star's explosive death, an active stellar corpse was the likely source of repeated energetic flares observed over several months -- a phenomenon astronomers had never seen before, ...