A University of Arizona-led team of astronomers has created a detailed, three-dimensional image of a dying hypergiant star. The team,...
The structure of the universe is often described as being a cosmic web of filaments, nodes, and voids, with the...
An international team of astronomers have for the first time combined the power of 64 radio telescope dishes to detect...
The ancestors of some of the largest galaxy clusters have been hiding in plain sight. New work led by Carnegie’s...
The European Space Agency and NASA on Wednesday talked up the prospect of putting the first European on the moon,...
Swirling disks of gas and dust, the stuff that could one day form planets, surround young stars. Through NASA’s Disk...
This mosaic of dusty, swirling disks shows a sample of images captured from the International Gemini Observatory, a Program of...
The violent death throes of a nearby star so thoroughly disrupted its planetary system that the dead star left behind—known...
A young pulsar is blazing through the Milky Way at a speed of over a million miles per hour. This...
Mining the asteroids for resources like iron, precious metals, water, or other valuable species may someday become profitable. Mining will...
Star formation is arguably the most important process in the universe. Over their lifetimes, and then with their deaths, stars...
University of Arizona astronomers have identified five examples of a new class of stellar system. They’re not quite galaxies and...
