Baby sea turtles depend on the natural glow of moonlight to find their way from the beach to the ocean. But that path is now ...

University of Warwick astronomers, in partnership with institutions in Spain, are showing how astronomy tools, that are ...

Unlike active galaxies that endlessly devour nearby matter, these black holes remain in slumber, stirring only momentarily to consume an unlucky passing star. Astronomers from MIT, Columbia University ...

With a central bulge consisting of yellow stars resembling the slightly off-center yolk of an egg fried sunny-side up, NGC 2276 is yet another example of an asymmetric galaxy. Scientists believe this ...

Deep in the heart of our galaxy lies one of the most chaotic and mysterious regions in space. Now, scientists have created ...

The Sculptor galaxy is a treasure trove of information that astronomers around the world cannot wait to pick apart.

An infinity symbol–shaped galaxy hosts an active supermassive black hole. The growing giant may have come from the aftermath of a galactic smashup.

“The gas spans the entire width of the system and was likely shocked and compressed at the collision site,” they and their ...

What could we choose as the seven most remarkable celestial objects visible either with our eyes or with a small telescope?

An ancient galaxy throws astronomers a curveball as it confuses them, but may also have the answer to a question billions of ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have teamed up to identify a new possible example of a ...