The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has found a bizarre galaxy in the early universe whose gas outshines its stars, marking it...
Astronomers have created the most detailed infrared map of the Milky Way — and it contains more than 1.5 billion objects. Made...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has spotted a gigantic black hole "starving" its host galaxy to death, astronomers say.The supermassive...
A Mysterious ring of radio light could have been created by a type of massive star with a powerful wind of radiation blowing away its...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has spotted the earliest galaxy ever seen, and its unusually bright light is coming from a bizarre...
What it is: The galaxy duo Arp 142, also known as "the Penguin" and "the Egg"Where it is: About 325 million light-years from Earth,...
The warp in the Milky Way's spiral disk is precessing backward under the iNFLuence of the enormous mass of dark matter that forms an...
Astronomers have scrutinized a cluster of stars that is the apparent remnant core of a relatively small galaxy that was swallowed by...
In December 2019, astronomers using the Zwicky Transient Facility, located on California's Palomar Mountain, detected an unexpected...
What it is: NGC 1546, a spiral galaxyWhere it is: 50 million light-years away, in the Southern Hemisphere constellation Dorado When...
Astronomers have spotted two active black holes merging at their farthest distance ever — just 900 million years after the Big...
A team of astronomers combed through a collection of odd stars that are candidates for Dyson spheres — artificial constructs...
The Milky Way has long fascinated humanity, covering the night sky with its familiar constellations and dense streams of stars. The...
What it is: The dwarf galaxy NGC 4449, also called Caldwell 21 Where it is: 12.5 million light-years away, in the constellation...
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted the earliest-known galaxy, one that is surprisingly bright and big considering it...
What it is: NGC 4753, a lenticular galaxyWhere it is: 60 million light-years from Earth in the constellation VirgoWhen it was shared:...
At least seven stars in the Milky Way show signs of potentially harboring a hypothetical, super-advanced form of alien Technology known...
Scientists have identified one of the oldest known stars outside the Milky Way. The discovery, reported in March in the journal Nature...
