In recent years, one of the most troubling puzzles in astrophysics has grown more urgent. Scientists have realized that the ...

Scientists have uncovered a massive galaxy that existed just 2 billion years after the Big Bang. But how did this colossal ...

When I was a kid, I was fascinated by the Powers of 10 video, which came out in the 1970s. Perhaps you remember it, with the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has teamed up with the MeerKAT radio telescope array to explore how magnetic fields ...

"A supercomputer simulation shows many galaxies merging over time. The parts of galaxies we can see are glowing stars forming from gas in their central parts. Visualizations like these inform ...

A bright star within our Milky Way galaxy photobombed a beautiful new image of a distant galaxy with "patchy" spiral arms.

The researchers confirmed that two enormous stars, each more than 20 times the mass of the sun, are growing inside ...

The smaller, intermediate mass black hole was likely derived from the Sausage Galaxy, which collided with the Milky Way 10 ...

Astronomers bid an emotional farewell to Gaia, expressing their gratitude for its more than decade-long mission that gave us ...

Sagittarius C is one of the most extreme environments in the Milky Way galaxy. This cloudy region of space sits about 200 ...

An international research team led by Dr. Zhang Suinan from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of ...

ALMA has revealed evidence of a new type of slim, filamentary structure that drives cycles of depletion and replenishment. At the heart of our galaxy, in the turbulent region surrounding the ...