Three ultramassive galaxies found by the James Webb Space Telescope have astronomers reconsidering how galaxies grew so ...

While the authors guess the object could be the remnants of stellar merger or an intermediate ... identify this currently unknown phenomenon. Space is a big place. But despite our diminutive ...

If you’re lucky—for a sufficiently broad definition of “lucky”—you’ll materialize over the surface of a star (or inside one) ...

Which do you think is the spookiest object ... Space can be as terrifying as it is beautiful. From nebulas — vast regions of gas and dust illuminated by starlight and sculpted by stellar ...

JWST imaged the stellar graveyard with two cameras ... Like a cosmic bullseye, this trippy deep-space object is called an ...

Astronomers nicknamed the structure connected to the pulsar PSR B2224+65 as the “Guitar Nebula” because of its distinct ...

Image A James Webb Space Telescope image showing the spectrum of light from objects in the Orion Nebula ... Think of the OB’s as stellar bullies that prevented their JuMBO siblings from evolving ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) estimates that 130 million space debris objects 0.4 to 0.4 inches in size (1 mm to 1 cm) hurtle around the planet. In 2016, one such fragment punched a 16-inch (40 ...

Astronomers at the University of Toronto (U of T) have discovered the first pairs of white dwarf and main sequence ...

Unlike black holes, white holes don't have a gravitational pull or impact on surrounding stellar objects that can be ... that surrounds a black hole in space without factoring in the mass that ...

Such a burst flings star matter out into space but leaves behind the stellar core ... Astronomers also suspect that a class of objects called intermediate-mass black holes exist in the universe ...