Astronomers have long wondered why spiral galaxies like the Milky Way are so rare in our local galactic neighborhood. New ...

The VLT Survey Telescope has offered a treat for galactic archeologists. When astronomers look at galaxies, they’re often ...

An ancient star discovered in the Large Magellanic Cloud has revealed the chemical fingerprint of the early universe. It ...

Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have harnessed the JWST for some eye-opening discoveries.

After starting science operations in February, Japan-led XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) studied the monster black hole at the center of galaxy NGC 4151.

Thanks to new sophisticated techniques and state-of-the-art facilities, astronomy has entered a new era in which the depth of ...

Advancing knowledge of Pluto’s composition has allowed scientists to model its iconic heart. By entering many variables into ...

Astronomers still don’t know what causes fast radio bursts, but they’re starting to use them to illuminate the space between ...

The world just experienced its hottest April on record, extending an 11-month streak in which every month set a temperature ...

to explore how interactions within dense stellar clusters could lead to the ejection of giant planets that remain gravitationally bound to each other as they drift through the galaxy. This ...

In what is currently the last theatrical feature from legendary animator Don Bluth, the remnants of mankind live among ...