Astronomers have witnessed something that no one believed possible: a black hole ripping apart a star not at the center of a ...

Elliptical galaxies instead tend to be older, more massive, and with stars distributed not in a nice little disk, but in a ...

A discovery of binary stars could be the first step in building a more complete picture of how our galaxy formed, according ...

An analysis of the afterglow of the big bang sheds light on how black holes distribute mass in the universe, and why some ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope hint that the universe’s first stars might not have been ordinary fusion ...

Astronomers have identified the most pristine star ever observed, located in the Milky Way's halo. This ancient star, with ...

For decades, scientists engaged in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) have probed the galaxy for signs of ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is considered a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. It's actually visible to the naked eye ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured a detailed image of NGC 6000, a barred spiral galaxy. It displays a yellow core of old ...

Now, astronomers have found a star that may be as close as we’ve ever come to witnessing one of the primordial stars. Known ...

An unusual double-ring structure spotted in space with the help of citizen scientists has turned out to be a cosmic rarity.

New radio astronomy results reveal how galaxies exchange gas with the intergalactic medium – the raw material for stars and ...