With its gleaming star clusters resembling bioluminescent fireflies, this galaxy offers astronomers a fascinating look at ...

The main motivation for the new study was the fact that some of the supermassive black holes in the centre of the Milky Way ...

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That's the Andromeda galaxy, our closest galactic neighbor, and in 4 billion years, it will collide with the Milky Way, ...

A galaxy nicknamed the Firefly Sparkle has been detected by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, marking a significant ...

Kartheik Iyer, a NASA Hubble Fellow at Columbia University in New York, was the co-author on the paper on Firefly Sparkle. It ...

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Lots can be seen here, including the Milky Way all year round and the Cassiopeia in autumn. In spring, stargazers are able to see Leo, Gemini, Regulus, Capella and the Pleiades star cluster. Coll, ...

M87 was the first black hole to be imaged, and now it's revealing details of how some elementary particles are accelerated by ...

Did microbes ever live on Mars? Did an "elevator" help build Egypt’s first pyramid? Some signs pointed to yes this year, but confirmation is still needed.

An image from the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) shows a striking celestial sight: the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy, a gorgeous face-on galaxy that is one of the closest and brightest barred spiral galaxies ...

A study by astronomers at the University of Southampton is hoping to solve what they are calling an “intergalactic mystery” ...