Astronomers searching for massive black holes shredding stars found one in an unusual place -- 2,600 light years from the core of a galaxy. The roque black hole may be from an earlier merger with ...

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

For more than two thousand years, people have mapped the stars. But a new study claims one of the world’s oldest surviving ...

This image from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals the locations of various elements in the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant, including silicon (red), sulfur (yellow), calcium (green), and iron ...

According to a controversial new study the world's oldest star map, known as the Star Manual of Master Shi, was created in ...

Explore the cosmos like never before with NASA James Webb’s breathtaking nebula images. Get ready to be mesmerized!

R Leonis, a variable star in Leo, is currently below naked-eye magnitude, but you can easily find it with binoculars or a ...

Los Angeles’ Griffith Park is a massive, mountainous, wild oasis in the middle of the city’s dense urban sprawl. Its real and cinematic history is pure joy to explore.

The data revealed that gas from HW2's accretion disk is collapsing inward at breakneck speed, feeding the star at an ...

Astronomers have spotted a supermassive black hole eating a star. This happened far from the center of its galaxy. The event, ...

Sophisticated computational models let us examine objects such as supernova remnants in extraordinary detail and from every ...

They found that the ancient star chart actually dates to 355 B.C. — 250 years earlier than previously thought — and that it ...