WASHINGTON – Astronomers have peered into a teeming stellar nursery in the Tarantula Nebula – a colossal cloud of gas and dust next door to our...
Studying black holes enables scientists to learn more about the lives of stars – how they form and die. Yet, finding a black hole is quite...
Signs of a planet transiting a star outside of the Milky Way galaxy may have been detected for the first time. This intriguing result, using NASA’s...
Although thousands of planets have been discovered in the Milky Way, most reside less than a few thousand light years from Earth. Yet our Galaxy is...
Just as the sun has planets and the planets have moons, our galaxy has satellite galaxies, and some of those might have smaller satellite galaxies of...
Astronomers from the Institute for Computational Cosmology at Durham University and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, have found evidence that the faintest satellite galaxies orbiting our...
Obscured by thick clouds of absorbing dust, the closest supermassive black hole to the Earth lies 26,000 light years away at the centre of the Milky...
Scientists at the University of Michigan have deduced that the Andromeda galaxy, our closest large galactic neighbor, shredded and cannibalized a massive galaxy two billion years...
An astronomer in Australia has published a new map of the cosmos’ high-velocity gas. It’s the most detailed map ever of the universe’s fast-moving molecular clouds....
In hopes of understanding how stellar megalopolises form and grow, researchers in Spain and Portugal set out to study the outskirts of massive elliptical galaxies. The...