The night sky is an object of fascination for many, and the Princeton community is no exception. On select nights throughout ...

While the events observed around Sgr A* are dramatic, this black hole is not as active as some at the center of other ...

Scientists didn't expect that stars would be able to still form in the dwarf galaxy known as Leo P, which the James Webb ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

There’s really no reason you can’t use binoculars to look into space – and in fact astronomers have been working on doing so ...

This image was created by combining data from three major observatories: NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Hubble Space ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

Astronomers trace the striking pattern to an encounter between a big galaxy and a much smaller one some 50 million years ago.

Einstein predicted that massive objects bend light as it passes through their gravitational field. This week, a new telescope ...

Possibly one of the best-known constellations in the northern sky, Ursa Major—or the Great Bear—contains an asterism of seven ...

Enabled by supercomputing, University of Pretoria (UP) researchers have led an international team of astronomers that has ...