On New Year’s Day, 1925 attendees at an astronomical conference heard one of the most influential scientific presentations of ...

A "missing link" black hole in Omega Centauri is still missing. What appeared to be an intermediate-mass black hole was a ...

ESO/L. Calçada, N. Risinger (skysurvey.org), DSS, VISTA, VVV Survey/D. Minniti DSS, Nogueras-Lara et al., Schoedel, NACO, ...

An investigation, carried out by the astrophysicists of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), questions one of the ...

"We came across a group of outbursting variable stars exhibiting very characteristic triangle-shaped symmetrical outbursts ...

Astronomers uncover a young galaxy similar to the Milky Way, shedding light on its early formation just 600 million years ...

"The Spiderweb protocluster is an ideal laboratory for investigating the relationship between black holes and star formation ...

But the state-of-the-art space observatory has recently imaged two grand design spiral galaxies, and one appears to be the ...

The telescope will catalogue billions of new objects and produce a new map of the entire night sky every three days with the largest digital camera ever made.

Called Kepler-51, the Sun-like yellow dwarf star was found in 2012 to have three exoplanets in its orbit; each, it would turn ...

Scientists have found the beginnings of a young universe that may offer insights into the beginnings of our own Milky Way Galaxy. Geoff Bennett and Miles O'Brien discussed why scientists are excited ...