The star, a red supergiant called WOH G64, resides in the Large Magellanic Cloud about 160,000 light-years away. Astrophysicist Keiichi Ohnaka of Universidad Andrés Bello led the imaging effort, which ...

The Goldstone Solar System Radar, part of NASA’s Deep Space Network, made these observations of the recently discovered ...

While astronomers have taken about two dozen zoomed-in images of stars in our galaxy, unveiling their properties, countless other stars dwell within other galaxies, so far away that observing even one ...

Astronomers zoomed in on a stellar behemoth in the Larger Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy that orbits about 160,000 light-years ...

The 'Behemoth Star' WOH G64 is located a staggering 160,000 light-years from Earth in a neighbouring galaxy called the Large ...

Astronomers have taken the first close-up image of a star beyond our galaxy, and it’s a “monster star” surrounded by a cocoon ...

A value called Bz indicates how far south the solar wind's magnetic field is pointing, which can predict how likely the northern lights are to occur.

Around the world, the historic geomagnetic superstorm of late spring 2024 inspired millions of non-scientists around the world—many armed with highly sensitive smartphone cameras—to take a fantastic, ...

It was studied along with other galaxies like the nearby NGC 3109, shown above, to learn how galaxies form, as part of a project called The VLT Survey Telescope Survey of Mass Assembly and Structural ...

How not to miss the next big display of Northern Lights as solar activity spikes in 2024 and 2025, from heading north to stay ...

In the earliest moments of the Universe, the first photons were trapped in a sea of ionized gas. They scattered randomly with ...

The National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) has released images of five galaxies in the local universe, taken with the ...