On New Year’s Day, 1925 attendees at an astronomical conference heard one of the most influential scientific presentations of ...

A "missing link" black hole in Omega Centauri is still missing. What appeared to be an intermediate-mass black hole was a ...

ESO/L. Calçada, N. Risinger (skysurvey.org), DSS, VISTA, VVV Survey/D. Minniti DSS, Nogueras-Lara et al., Schoedel, NACO, ...

An investigation, carried out by the astrophysicists of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), questions one of the ...

The Firefly Sparkle Galaxy is the first Milky Way-sized galaxy to ever be found while still in the process of forming.

"The Spiderweb protocluster is an ideal laboratory for investigating the relationship between black holes and star formation ...

The year 2025 promises to be packed with space exploration, including robotic expeditions to the moon, a new observatory and ...

Astronomers uncover a young galaxy similar to the Milky Way, shedding light on its early formation just 600 million years ...

But the state-of-the-art space observatory has recently imaged two grand design spiral galaxies, and one appears to be the ...

The telescope will catalogue billions of new objects and produce a new map of the entire night sky every three days with the largest digital camera ever made.

Called Kepler-51, the Sun-like yellow dwarf star was found in 2012 to have three exoplanets in its orbit; each, it would turn ...

Scientists have found the beginnings of a young universe that may offer insights into the beginnings of our own Milky Way Galaxy. Geoff Bennett and Miles O'Brien discussed why scientists are excited ...