The supermassive black hole (SMBH) at our galaxy’s core, Sagittarius A*, is modest in size with only 4.15 million solar-masses....
Astronomers discovered a rocket body heading toward a lunar collision late last year. Impact occurred March 4, with NASA’s Lunar...
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...
Upon looking at photographs and drawing on their past experiences, humans can often perceive depth in pictures that are, themselves,...
An international team of astronomers have for the first time combined the power of 64 radio telescope dishes to detect...
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...
