The findings will help scientists trace a black hole’s evolution as it feeds on stellar material.

A new approach could make it possible detect the elusive Unruh effect in hours, rather than billions of years.

Named after a goddess of the dawn, the Thesan simulation of the first billion years helps explain how radiation shaped the early universe.

Among thousands of known exoplanets, MIT astronomers flag three that are actually stars.

The planet’s night side likely hosts iron clouds, titanium rain, and winds that dwarf Earth’s jetstream.

Scientists including MIT’s Jacqueline Hewitt and Nicholas Kern share long-awaited results, getting closer to the universe’s first stars.

The discovery, based on an unusual event dubbed “the Cow,” may offer astronomers a new way to spot infant compact objects.

Mergers between two neutron stars have produced more heavy elements in last 2.5 billion years than mergers between neutron stars and black holes.

Such planetary smashups are likely common in young solar systems, but they haven’t been directly observed.

The results provide a blueprint for finding such systems in the universe’s quieter, emptier regions.