A new study examines how much material from the closest star system to Earth will end up in orbit around the Sun, and how ...
New data reveals a 3-million-light-year filament connecting two galaxies, each of which hosts a supermassive black hole.
Hubble Space Telescope can "only see the universe in shades of grey," according to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Learn ...
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured imagery of an object 9,000 light-years way known as IRAS 05506+2414. It "may be an ...
The discovery was made by Imad Pasha, a doctoral student at Yale University, who stumbled upon the unique galaxy while examining a ground-based imaging survey. "This ...
By observing tiny ripples in spacetime called "gravitational waves" that propagate away from colliding black holes, ...
"Temperamental" stars that brighten and dim over a matter of hours or days may be distorting our view of thousands of distant ...
Is it possible to understand the universe without understanding the largest structures that reside in it? In principle, not ...
Using 20 years of data from the Hubble Space Telescope astronomers have discovered that turbulent stars could be corrupting ...
Visual observers and astrophotographers alike can find something amazing to observe along the plane of our galaxy.