Jupiter and Mars are high overhead, and they’re both bright enough to stand out. Jupiter looks like the second brightest star ...

China's Einstein Probe (EP) astronomical satellite has captured an X-ray flash from a rare and elusive binary star system, ...

A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a cosmic cloudscape, with clouds of dust and gas swirling in beautiful colors.

Scientists see powerful explosion from mysterious, unknown object in space - Bright flash had been hidden in old data, ...

The "needle in the haystack" discovery of a powerful explosion from a mysterious unknown object outside our galaxy has excited astronomers. It went unnoticed for years within a vast, two decade-long ...

A nebula that neighbors the Milky Way galaxy happens to be a powerhouse of forging stars, "a bouquet of thousands of stars in ...

The Tarantula Nebula, also known as 30 Doradus, is revealed in an unusual light in this exceptionally deep Chandra X-ray ...

Astronomers have found a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud. This black hole is 600,000 times the mass of the Sun. The Large Magellanic Cloud may collide with the Milky Way in 2.4 ...

Fast-moving stars zooming through our galaxy might have been slingshotted from a black hole inside the neighbouring Large ...

Space scientists have unveiled a cosmic bouquet in time for Valentine's Day. The new image includes data from several ...

Blue stragglers, formed from the merger of two old red stars, shine with greater mass and a bluer hue, a theory confirmed by ...