Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

"Starburst galaxies birth lots of hot blue stars that burn fast and die quickly in explosions that unleash intense ...

The Andromeda galaxy, then known as the Andromeda nebula ... had speculated that some nebulae might be remote systems of stars or “island universes,” but there was no data to support this ...

Astronomers have discovered strong evidence for the closest supermassive black hole outside of the Milky Way galaxy. This ...

in a vibrant star-forming region of our galaxy called the Flame Nebula. Brown dwarfs are too small to trigger the nuclear ...

A nearby galaxy is ablaze with new stars in a dazzling new image from the James Webb Space Telescope. Located 45 million ...

The researchers used data from the European Space Agency's Gaia space observatory that has tracked more than a billion stars ...

Studies suggest they were accelerated by Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy. But at least 21 hypervelocity stars detected are consistent with being ejected by ...

Astronomers have found that the further a star or galaxy is, the redder its light appears. This effect is known as red-shift and it tells us that distant stars are moving away from us. Scientists ...