ENTs occur when stars that are at least three times as massive as the Sun pass so close to a supermassive black hole that its colossal gravity shreds them to pieces. The resulting string of matter ...

Astrophysicists suggest our galaxy may lie inside a "cosmic void" - offering a new explanation for the universe’s conflicting ...

The James Webb Space Telescope ( JWST) is celebrating three years of transformational science with a striking new image of ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

The James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope have captured amazing views of spiral galaxy NGC 2566. Credit: ...

Names are a strange thing in astronomy. Sometimes scientists come up with grandiose, simple name, like the Extremely Large ...

"This discovery heralds a broader understanding of the diversity in massive stars' deaths and a need for deeper investigations into the whole landscape of stellar evolution." ...

Stars often die with a final burst of beauty. For the first time, astronomers have captured visual proof that a star can ...

Here are 8 incredibly beautiful and mesmerizing deep space images captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, showcasing the ...

Using a combination of telescopes, including the International Gemini Observatory, funded in part by the U.S. National ...

Some of these open clusters are pretty famous, such as the Pleiades cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters. This is ...

These telescopes represent the cutting edge of astronomical discovery, probing the universe across the electromagnetic ...