The star S0–6 appears to have traveled 50,000 light-years from a now-extinct galaxy to reach the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

The first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory showed off a breathtaking preview of its capabilities — capturing millions of stars and galaxies light-years from Earth, along with thousands of ...

Astronomers from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan and Osaka Kyoiku University in Japan, have detected the element thorium in a red giant star called COS82, which lies in the Ursa Minor ...

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Like cool pictures of the cosmos? You came to the right place. A new ground-based telescope two decades in the making has finally released its first-ever images of the universe – and astronomers say ...

The finding offers tantalizing clues in the ongoing quest to piece together the origins of ORCs—mysterious, ring-shaped radio signals from space. reading time 2 minutes For lovers of cool astronomy ...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory may have spotted the first exoplanet outside our Milky Way galaxy. Located in Messier 51 (M51), also known as the Whirlpool Galaxy, the giant exoplanet candidate ...

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National Science Foundation and Department of Energy will host a full reveal event streaming on the agency's YouTube channel. Live watch parties are also taking place all over the world. Named for ...

One of the toughest parts of the universe to observe is the ominously-named “zone of avoidance” (ZoA), the relatively uncharted region of the sky obscured by our own Milky Way galaxy. But in new ...