"These two supernova remnants are helping us to better understand the dynamics of our home galaxy’s neighborhood," ...

A new study has unveiled new insights into the effects of massive stars on nearby molecular gas and star formation in the W4 ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...

Scientists have discovered an impressive galaxy with Hubble Space Telescope that has six more rings than other previously ...

Towards the end of the month, Mercury appears in the evening sky, and climbs up past Saturn. In the dusk glow, you may be ...

Russian astronomers have conducted photometric observations of a unique extremely metal-poor luminous blue variable star ...

Carnegie Mellon University researchers led a study that concluded a shredded star launched a powerful burst of energy toward the Earth.

Scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope have spotted a record-smashing galaxy wrapped in 9 rings of stars — along with ...

Yale astronomers have announced the discovery of a galaxy with nine concentric rings—the most rings ever seen in a single ...

Supermassive black holes are seen as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope had captured a ringed galaxy (LEDA 1313424) that not only heavily resembles a bullseye, but ...

Visual observers and astrophotographers alike can find something amazing to observe along the plane of our galaxy.