The universe is home to many fascinating objects. R Aquarii is a binary star system with a red giant and a white dwarf. Omega ...

Hubble captures the aftermath of the Large Magellanic Cloud’s dramatic encounter with the Milky Way, revealing the loss of ...

If the Large Magellanic Cloud were not quite so massive, the Milky Way would have robbed it of any opportunity to form new ...

Encounter Blew Away Most of Smaller Galaxy's Gaseous Halo In a dramatic tale of survival captured by the Hubble Space ...

It was studied along with other galaxies like the nearby NGC 3109, shown above, to learn how galaxies form, as part of a project called The VLT Survey Telescope Survey of Mass Assembly and Structural ...

Ever since William Herschel discovered Uranus in 1781, astronomers have been eager to find new planets on the outer edge of the solar system. But after the discovery of Neptune in 1846, we’ve found no ...

One such surprise is the appearance of Peter Dinklage as Eitri, the giant dwarf. The film’s emotional depth ... ensuring it ...

The National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) has released images of five galaxies in the local universe, taken with the ...

In the year 185 C.E, Chinese astronomers spotted a supernova and dubbed it the "guest star." The National Science ...

In the expanse of space, where stars burn and galaxies collide, there exists a type of star so strange and powerful that it ...

Earlier this month, a team of US National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole, called ...

A story of survival is unfolding at the outer reaches of our galaxy, and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is witnessing the saga ...