Astronomers have spotted orbiting around a young star a newborn planet that took only 3 million years to form - quite swift ...
Astronomers have stumbled upon a pair of massive black holes in a distant galaxy that are triggering unusual bursts of light. These bright emissions, which appear to peak on a regular cycle, may be ...
Scientists at the European Southern Observatory have revealed a photograph showing a close-up image of star WHO G64, a red supergiant.
Fast radio bursts — powerful and poorly understood cosmic eruptions — tend to occur in massive galaxies that host long-dead ...
Distant, ancient galaxies are giving scientists more hints that a mysterious force called dark energy may not be what they ...
Black holes don't have many identifying features. They come in one color (black) and one shape (spherical). The main ...
Astronomers have taken the first close-up image of a star beyond our galaxy, and it’s a “monster star” surrounded by a cocoon ...
Our best view yet of the material linking clusters of galaxies may have pinpointed some 20 percent of the universe’s missing ...
While astronomers have taken about two dozen zoomed-in images of stars in our galaxy, unveiling their properties, countless other stars dwell within other galaxies, so far away that observing even one ...