How space telescopes capture distant galaxies using infrared imaging, precision optics, and astronomy technology beyond Earth's atmosphere.

A massive star 2.5 million light-years away simply vanished — and astronomers now know why. Instead of exploding in a supernova, it quietly collapsed into a black hole, shedding its outer layers in a ...

For a few brief nights each year, you get a rare chance to watch a monster blink. The Event Horizon Telescope collaboration has released new, detailed views of M87*, the supermassive black hole at ...

In the nearby Andromeda Galaxy, a massive star bright enough to stand out for years has gone dark. Not in a blaze of glory.

Astronomers want to collect as much data as possible using as many systems as possible. Sometimes that requires coordination ...

New research reveals how quiet galactic engines can help shape entire galaxies.

Their observations of a faint, cool M-dwarf star called LHS 1903 revealed a system with a rocky world at its outer edge. LHS ...

A new radio survey reveals that the Milky Way’s magnetic field is intricate, widespread, and deeply connected to how the galaxy is organized.

Astronomers have watched a dying star fail to explode as a supernova, instead collapsing into a black hole. The remarkable ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is being lauded for capturing the clearest images to date of the Egg Nebula. Here's what we know about this achievement.

Astronomers have found a compact solar system whose planets line up in a way that, according to current models, should not be ...