In recent years, one of the most troubling puzzles in astrophysics has grown more urgent. Scientists have realized that the ...

A team at Nagoya University in Japan has revealed new insights into the motion of massive stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has teamed up with the MeerKAT radio telescope array to explore how magnetic fields ...

When I was a kid, I was fascinated by the Powers of 10 video, which came out in the 1970s. Perhaps you remember it, with the ...

Astronomers bid an emotional farewell to Gaia, expressing their gratitude for its more than decade-long mission that gave us ...

ALMA has revealed evidence of a new type of slim, filamentary structure that drives cycles of depletion and replenishment. At the heart of our galaxy, in the turbulent region surrounding the ...

An international research team led by Dr. Zhang Suinan from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of ...

The researchers confirmed that two enormous stars, each more than 20 times the mass of the sun, are growing inside ...

When their end comes, the stars will explode in a blast making them around 200,000 times brighter than Jupiter does now.

Scientists have uncovered a massive galaxy that existed just 2 billion years after the Big Bang. But how did this colossal ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Astronomers have spotted two hefty white dwarf stars - highly compact stellar embers - orbiting close ...

Sagittarius C is one of the most extreme environments in the Milky Way galaxy. This cloudy region of space sits about 200 ...