The Chandra X-ray Observatory view of galaxy group NGC 4839 has revealed that it is "plunging into the Coma galaxy cluster and leaving behind an extraordinary tail of superheated gas," according to ...

A new collage from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals eight dazzling examples of gravitational lensing.

NASA's SPHEREx is exploring the galaxies to answer the question of where we all come from while sending back jaw-dropping ...

A discovery of binary stars could be the first step in building a more complete picture of how our galaxy formed, according ...

Dark matter, mysterious invisible stuff that makes up most of the mass of galaxies including our own Milky Way, is confounding scientists again, with new observations of distant galaxies conflicting ...

The object was detected by observing how its gravity distorts light behind it. Astronomers have discovered an extremely faint ...

Study co-author Professor Luca Casagrande emphasised that the discovery is remarkable given 47 Tucanae’s century-long history of study. The results suggest that disruption in the crowded cluster core ...

Astronomers have captured the clearest picture yet of how massive stars are born, revealing a dramatic interplay between ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is considered a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. It's actually visible to the naked eye ...

Astronomy is, in essence, an exercise in inference. We cannot touch the stars, nor scoop up galaxies in a lab. Instead, we ...