The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a "200,000 light-year-long trail of newborn stars" that may have been left behind by a ...

Using ESA's XMM-Newton satellite and NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory, astronomers have observed a young stellar object known ...

Astrophysicists have observed our central supermassive black hole. They found the accretion disk is constantly emitting flares without periods of rest. Shorter, faint flares and longer, bright flares ...

Lobster-eye satellite Einstein Probe captured the X-ray flash from a very elusive celestial pair. The discovery opens a new way to explore how massive stars interact and evolve, confirming the unique ...

Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy F or centuries our solar ...

Like its mythological namesake, the Phoenix Cluster burns with blisteringly hot gas, which cools to birth stars. The James ...

This breakthrough builds on more than a decade of research using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope, along with several powerful ground-based observatories.

Scientists predict Andromeda and the Milky Way will collide in about 4.5 billion years—reshaping the night sky forever!.

Researchers at the University of Oxford, together with colleagues at the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) and at several other laboratories, have announced results from a new search ...

A technique called sonification allows new discoveries, brings out subtleties in dense data, and makes astronomy more accessible.

The "needle in the haystack" discovery of a powerful explosion from a mysterious unknown object outside our galaxy has ...