The fundamental building blocks for planet formation can exist even in environments with extreme ultraviolet radiation, ...

Astronomers caught a brutal act of cosmic violence for the first time—one galaxy piercing another with deadly radiation.

An international team of astronomers has successfully demonstrated a new technique to observe especially faint black holes by ...

Astronomers have witnessed for the first time a violent cosmic collision in which one galaxy pierces another with intense ...

The pair — dueling it out 11 billion light-years away in space — has given astronomers their first detailed look at a galaxy ...

A new preprint suggests that an ancient Chinese star catalog dates to 355 B.C.E. But other researchers aren't convinced, ...

Scientists using radio wavelength data from the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) spotted a strangely ...

Scientists have discovered unknown bacteria that have never been seen on Earth living inside a cabin on China 's Tiangong space station.

Recent calculations suggest that Jupiter, our solar system's largest planet, was once more than double its current size.

Astronomers are using Hubble to study vivid gas clouds and newborn stars in the tilted spiral galaxy NGC 3511.

Dr Jayant Vishnu Narlikar, one of India’s most respected astrophysicists and a tireless science communicator, passed away in ...

Scientists using the XRISM satellite have uncovered a major clue to one of astronomy’s longstanding mysteries: why galaxy ...