C.E, Chinese astronomers spotted a supernova and dubbed it the "guest star." The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Víctor M ...

A distant galaxy that lay quiet for decades has suddenly stirred, lighting up in dramatic bursts that have caught astronomers ...

Named Kohoutek 4-55, the nebula was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. Planetary nebulae like Kohoutek 4-55 are the ...

Scientists have discovered a sub-Neptune exoplanet, GI 410 b, using the radial velocity technique. It orbits a nearby star 39 light years from Earth and has a mass 8.5 times that of our planet. The ...

M16, also known as the Eagle Nebula, is a young star-forming region in the Serpens constellation, famously home to the "Pillars of Creation" captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. NGC 3627 is a ...

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Once mistaken for a fuzzy star cluster, the stunning Squid Galaxy—formally known as Messier 77—has transformed in the eyes of astronomers over the centuries. Originally discovered in the 1700s by ...

The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...

The unusual galaxy was profiled in two complimentary studies. The first study, led by Doctoral Candidate Yimeng Tang of the University of California, Santa Cruz and published in the journal ...

A team of researchers at Nagoya University has discovered evidence that the Small Magellanic Cloud is potentially being torn ...

The oldest naked eye star yet found still provides stellar theorists with key data on the earliest epochs of our Milky Way.