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, ...
Astronomers have discovered a pair of young stars near the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy. Studying them ...
The Firefly Sparkle Galaxy is the first Milky Way-sized galaxy to ever be found while still in the process of forming.
But the state-of-the-art space observatory has recently imaged two grand design spiral galaxies, and one appears to be the ...
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) have puzzled scientists since they were first discovered in 2007. They are, as the name suggests, extremely brief bursts of radio emission, lasting just milliseconds. They're ...
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.
Astronomers uncover a young galaxy similar to the Milky Way, shedding light on its early formation just 600 million years ...
Called Kepler-51, the Sun-like yellow dwarf star was found in 2012 to have three exoplanets in its orbit; each, it would turn ...