The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently under construction in northern Chile, will give us a better view of the Milky ...

A research team linked nearby stellar explosions to at least one, possibly two, mass die-offs after calculating the supernova ...

Don't worry, there's no need to be concerned of encountering a black hole anytime soon, but here's what would happen to your ...

At the center of most large galaxies, including our own Milky Way, sits a supermassive black hole. Interstellar gas periodically falls into the orbit ...

Far beyond the edge of what the naked eye can see, a giant spiral galaxy has offered scientists a glimpse into a possible ...

Violent supernovas may have caused two of Earth’s largest mass extinctions that have never been completely explained, ...

Where are all the aliens? It's a question that goes back to Enrico Fermi, an Italian-American physicist who was a member of the Manhattan Project which you will likely know a thing or two about if you ...

The spiral galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 is located nearly 1 billion light-years away from Earth, and measures about three ...

A terrifying glimpse at one potential fate of our Milky Way galaxy has come to light thanks to the discovery of a cosmic ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered the Firefly Sparkle galaxy, a young cosmic entity that may resemble the Milky ...

Astronomers have revealed that "space tornadoes" are swirling around the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky ...

The emission nebula, known as Sh2-284, is an immense region of gas and dust that fuels new star formation. It lacks elements ...