The largest sample of galaxy groups ever detected has been presented by a team of international astronomers using data from ...

"We want to understand how these galaxies are forming stars, how many stars they’re forming, and especially how the black ...

This gas needs an enormous amount of energy to shine — more than normal stars can supply. The discovery, based on data from ...

Two new research studies explore how a stellar nursery in the heart of the Milky Way is affected by the region’s strong ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, directly observed star clusters merging at the cores of dwarf galaxies—a process long ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered "smoking gun" evidence of a hidden feeding supermassive ...

"Thanks to the high resolution of our new images, we detected a faint structure on the northeast side of this supernova ...

Astronomers have identified a magnetar named SGR 0501+4516 moving at over 110,000 mph (177,000 km/h). This type of neutron ...

The image was published as part of the 35th anniversary celebrations of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, which was ...

After more than a decade of mapping billions of stars across the Milky Way and beyond, a groundbreaking spacecraft is ...

Thirty-five years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit. It's been sending back galactic data and images ...

Astronomers have confirmed a wandering black hole, about seven times the mass of the Sun, 5,000 light-years from Earth.