In some of the most crowded parts of the universe, black holes may be tearing apart thousands of stars and...
A team of astronomers, with the help of the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), have observed a...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is celebrating its 32nd birthday with a stunning look at an unusual close-knit collection of...
The spiral galaxy M91 fills the frame of this Wide Field Camera 3 observation from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope....
A celestial event mentioned in an ancient Chinese text turns out to be the oldest known reference to a candidate...
Astronomers at the University of Sydney have found a slimmer type of red giant star for the first time. These...
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will see the first galaxies to form after the Big Bang, but to do that,...
An enormous comet—approximately 80 miles across, more than twice the width of Rhode Island—is heading our way at 22,000 miles...
Physicists have become keenly interested in the first billion years of the universe—the stretch between the Big Bang and the...
An international team of astronomers have used ground-based telescopes, including the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), to...
In the first few billion years after the Big Bang, the universe contained far more so-called starburst galaxies than models...
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has directly photographed evidence of a Jupiter-like protoplanet forming through what researchers describe as an “intense...
