New model shows extremely massive stars, over 1,000 solar masses, shaped the birth and early evolution of the universe's ...

A distant black hole has been caught releasing the brightest flare ever, which is the result of it ripping apart and ...

We measure the “warmness” of the dark matter, i.e. the comoving root-mean-square thermal velocity v hrms (1) , with nearly 3000 spiral galaxy rotation curves in the ...

For the first time, an international research team led by the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy ...

The very first generation of stars, called Population III stars, are mostly expected to be too distant to see directly – but ...

Astronomers from MIT have uncovered an astonishingly rich mix of molecules in a region of space known as the Taurus Molecular Cloud-1 (TMC-1). This dark, cold cloud of gas—where sun-like stars are ...

The broad plumes, which are 160 light-years across, are called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and are being pushed ...

The Vera Rubin Observatory (VRO) hasn't yet begun its much-anticipated Legacy Survey of Space and Time. But it saw its first ...

November’s night skies are grand, festive and bright in many places, quiet and contemplative in others. Both tempers are ...

Data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope combine to reveal an otherworldly view of ...

An unexpected monster black hole was found hiding inside one of the Milky Way's tiniest neighbors, rewriting what scientists ...

Astronomers have unveiled a new map of the universe’s largest structures—massive clusters of galaxies that stretch across ...