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.

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

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

A new, more detailed study of 1,000 distant galaxies explains why some gas-rich galaxies don’t produce as many stars as you’d ...

The galaxy MoM-z14 dates back to 280 million years after the big bang, and the prevalence of such early galaxies is puzzling ...

Last month, astronomers claimed to have found the strongest evidence ever of alien life on a distant exoplanet named K2-18 b.