Our new study of the nearby starburst galaxy Haro 11 has shown that strong X-ray-emitting superwinds may be a key mechanism ...

Photo taken on June 19, 2015 shows the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) at the Xinglong ...

The school-bus-sized observatory launched on April 24, 1990 and overcame early setbacks to become one of the most ...

The Andromeda Galaxy's family of dwarfs are an enigma. First it was the unusual flat plane around which more than half of them orbit, and now this lopsidedness. It just goes to show that sometimes it ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared and Mid-Infrared instruments (NIRCam & MIRI) have delivered imagery of ...

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have discovered evidence that suggests the presence of a long-sought supermassive black hole at the heart of the nearby spiral galaxy ...

At the edge of science and imagination lies a question once posed by a Nobel laureate and now revisited with fresh eyes: ...

A surprisingly well-formed spiral galaxy has been spotted just a billion years after the Big Bang, challenging long-held ...

JWST discovers Zhúlóng, the earliest Milky Way-like galaxy, 800 million years after the Big Bang explosion occurred.

Apr. 16, 2025 — Astronomers have detected the most promising signs yet of a possible biosignature outside the solar system, although they remain ...

Researchers have spent the past few years watching a black hole re-awaken roughly 300 million light-years away from Earth.