At the end of September, Earth gained a temporary "mini moon," a tiny asteroid from the Arjuna asteroid belt orbiting the Sun ...

Recent research by a student-faculty team at Colgate University unlocks new clues that could radically change the world's ...

WOH G64 is 2,000 times the size of the sun and is 160,000 light-years distant in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy.

Located a staggering 160,000 light-years from us, the star WOH G64 was imaged thanks to the impressive sharpness offered by ...

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 ...

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Scientists announced Thursday that they had taken the first zoomed-in image of a dying star beyond our galaxy. The star is ...

Sixteenth century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe laid the framework for modern cosmology without ever using a telescope.

Researchers have discovered three ultra-massive galaxies from the universe's first billion years, challenging existing models of star formation. These galaxies, identified with the James Webb Space ...

The new observations reveal a star puffing out gas and dust, in the last stages before it becomes a supernova. Keiichi ...

Astronomers have captured the first close-up image of a star beyond our galaxy, taken during a dramatic moment ...