The Hubble Space Telescope reveals how color filters tease out the life cycles of stars in spiral galaxy NGC 6000 — while a ...

Astronomers from the Australian National University (ANU) have unveiled a ground-breaking discovery of binary stars in the outer regions of the globular cluster 47 Tucanae, marking a world-first ...

HD 140283, better known as the Methuselah star, is around 200 light-years from Earth, in the constellation of Libra. It is ...

For decades, astronomers have looked to the outer reaches of the cosmos for answers to our most fundamental questions: Where ...

A discovery of binary stars could be the first step in building a more complete picture of how our galaxy formed, according ...

Not only are they supermassive black holes, but they crate a unique "wagging tail" of super-charged particles.

An interstellar visitor is zipping through the Milky Way, and a team of Michigan State University researchers is keeping ...

Dark matter, mysterious invisible stuff that makes up most of the mass of galaxies including our own Milky Way, is confounding scientists again, with new observations of distant galaxies conflicting ...

These starless worlds are difficult to find and study, but this particular one is teaching us new lessons about the universe.

From GPS to innovations in computing and optics, technologies developed for space research at UC Santa Cruz touch nearly ...

Gamma-ray burst, GRB 250702B, lasting for a record-breaking seven hours, stunned researchers Researchers have discovered a ...