Ohnaka and his team found an egg-shaped shell of dust and gas surrounding WOH G64 - a dying star about 160,000 light-years ...
Distant, ancient galaxies are giving scientists more hints that a mysterious force called dark energy may not be what they ...
Peculiar James Webb Space Telescope observations seem to show gargantuan black holes in the earliest moments of the universe.
A series of "red monsters" discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are complicating our accepted ideas about the ...
A galaxy racing through space at an astonishing speed of two million mph (3.2 million km/h) has created a dramatic collision.
Scientists have finally imaged a star outside of the Milky Way for the first time. Here's what it looks like and how they did ...
A shockwave caused by the galaxy NGC 7318b slamming into four other galaxies is akin to a "sonic boom from a jet fighter." ...
Thousands of flashes of cosmic energy, also known as fast radio bursts (FRBs), erupt across the sky every day. They were ...
Astronomers have taken a zoomed-in photo of a star outside the Milky Way for the first time, the European Southern Observatory announced in a statement Thursday.
“For the first time, we have succeeded in taking a zoomed-in image of a dying star in a galaxy outside our own Milky Way,” ...
Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery of binary star systems, consisting of a white dwarf and a main sequence star ...
took the first close-up image of a dying star outside of the Milky Way. The newly imaged star, WH G64, is located within the ...