Another possibility is that CWISE got a “kick” from a black hole system that launched it right out of a globular star cluster and propelled it towards the center of the Milky Way. In conversation with ...

How does galaxy location drive galaxy structure and star formation? This is what a recent study published in the Monthly ...

Students in a joint UT Austin and UTSA astronomy course say they have zeroed in on an unexpectedly massive black hole parked ...

Astronomers located hyperactive fast radio bursts to a faint dwarf galaxy orbiting a larger companion 2 billion light-years ...

A study of supernova remnant SNR 0519-69.0 using the Chandra X-ray telescope, Hubble and more has narrowed down its age to ...

Everything you see around you—your phone, your cat, the Earth, the stars—makes up just 15% of the mass in the universe. The ...

MIT astronomers utilized a space-based X-ray telescope to delineate critical features within a star system’s innermost region ...

A new study of M31, also known as Andromeda, explains how our cosmic neighbor kills off smaller nearby galaxies.

Astronomers have made a surprising discovery about NGC 6789, an isolated dwarf galaxy located 12 million light-years away in ...

The first test image from the telescope in the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has revealed a previously unnoticed trail of light that could give insight into both the history and abnormalities of the M61 ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected phosphine gas in the ancient brown dwarf Wolf 1130C, a discovery that contradicts years of predictions about how phosphorus behaves in ...

"The discovery of this stream highlights how much is still unknown about the life histories of galaxies, how the hidden ...