At the center of our galaxy, hidden behind dense clouds of gas and dust, the black hole Sagittarius A* rotates rapidly, ...

Star clusters are formed when gravity pulls young stars together, forcing them to orbit each other. A star cluster can ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has found perhaps its most profound discovery to date. The uncovered preferred direction for ...

Young stars coming to life out of the proverbial celestial dust is perhaps the most captivating sight in the cosmos. Check ...

"By putting together the individual results, like in a puzzle, we reconstruct the formation history of these systems." ...

The universe is vast, mysterious, and breathtakingly beautiful. From the glow of distant galaxies to the quiet elegance of ...

The Messier catalog, popular with amateur astronomers, was actually just a by-product of comet hunting. The aim was to avoid ...

This artistic illustration provided by the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) shows an intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) ejecting a high-velocity star from ...

Read Showing a large portion of M66, this Hubble photo is a composite of images obtained at visible and infrared wavelengths.

have indications on the formation age and the properties of globular clusters, fundamental tracers also for the dark matter content. "By putting together the individual results, like in a puzzle ...

Discovered in 1989 by the Arecibo Observatory, PSR B1310+18A, (M53A for short) is a pulsar in an old globular cluster (GC) NGC 5024 (also known as M53) located some 60,000 light years away.

A stunning Blood Moon March 13/14 caps off plenty of planetary action and sparkling stars in the sky this week.