A bouquet of thousands of stars in bloom has arrived. This composite image contains the deepest X-ray image ever made of the ...

Possibly one of the best-known constellations in the northern sky, Ursa Major—or the Great Bear—contains an asterism of seven ...

"The idea that they can somehow obliterate these sources is dead wrong — scientists in general and astronomers in particular ...

Predictions are uncertain, but the solar system may be pushed farther from the galactic core or even ejected entirely from ...

Centaurus A: NGC 5128 is a galaxy in constellation Centaurus, discovered in 1826 by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop. Messier ...

Sara Webb explores what will happen when our Sun stops shining, and our galaxy, The Milky Way, collides with the andromeda ...

Hubble Telescope previously discovered eight rings of the gargantuan structure, but astronomers confirmed the ninth ring with ...

In a study published today by The Astrophysical Journal Letters, a research team led by Yale University’s Imad Pasha ...

Imad Pasha, the lead researcher and a doctoral student at Yale University called it a "serendipitous discovery" because it ...

The observable universe is about 93 billion light-years in diameter.” This can be explained as the distance from the Earth to ...

Stare into the heart of our galaxy – the Milky Way, filled with billions of stars and mysterious deep-space wonders.

In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...