Between spotting galaxies that shouldn't exist, capturing the interstellar medium with unprecedented clarity, and identifying ...

Located around 900 light-years away in the Puppis constellation, Tylos orbits its parent star at an absurdly close distance, ...

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

Research has found black holes which 'nibble' on stars are contributing more than previously thought to the bombardment of ...

Breathe a sigh of relief! NASA has dropped the risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth in 2032 to 1 in 67, just a day after ...

Stars are born in dense molecular clouds, but did they always form this way? Recent research suggests that in the early ...

Have you ever looked at the beach and wondered how many grains of sand there are? That can be mind-boggling to think about. Scientists estimate that, depending on the grain size and density, a single ...

Sgr A* possesses roughly 4 million times the mass of our sun and is located about 26,000 light-years from Earth. A light-year ...

There are trillions of charged particles – protons and electrons, the basic building blocks of matter – whizzing around above ...

"We would like to understand the difference between these systems, which holds the clue to understand just how many cosmic ...