NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope have been used to study a cluster of stars, nicknamed “Nikhuli," ...

Check out an amazing view of star cluster NGC 602. It "lies on the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud," according to the ...

NASA, using the Chandra X-Ray Observatory and radio telescopes, discovered supermassive black holes in distant galaxies ...

A binary system 18,000 light-years away, emits X-rays as a Sun-like star orbits a dense companion, either a neutron star or black hole. Telescopes like Chandra, IXPE, and XMM-Newton capture its ...

When the JWST came to life and began observations, one of its first jobs was to gaze back in time at the early universe. The ...

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

Astronomical observations with the James Webb Space Telescope support the hypothesis that the first pronounced structures in our Universe may have formed much earlier than previously assumed.

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

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 ...

Astronomers have discovered nearly 100 examples of massive black holes shredding and devouring stars, almost all of them where you'd expect to find ...

Astronomers are urging Earthlings to keep their eyes peeled for a once-in-a-lifetime sight that hasn't been observed for 80 ...