( Nanowerk News) If you think a galaxy is big, compare it to the size of the Universe: it’s just a tiny dot which, together with a huge number of other tiny dots, forms clusters that aggregate into ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered mysterious “little red dots” that may not be galaxies at all, but a whole new type of object: black hole stars. These fiery spheres, ...

Today, let's talk about some of the perplexing phenomena in the universe. The universe is vast, hiding countless galaxies, ...

Stellar migration may greatly increase the number of habitable planets in the Milky Way. Future ESA missions will test these predictions with detailed exoplanet observations. What can the Galactic Hab ...

Travel the universe from your seat with our picks from the annual ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition.

A swarm of galaxies called the Bullet Cluster is the biggest, best natural laboratory for studying dark matter that ...

The small red objects discovered by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) provide scientists with new insights into the origins of galaxies in the universe and may represent a completely new type ...

A blowtorch of seething gases erupting from a volcanically growing monster star has been captured by NASA's James Webb Space ...

NGC 3603-A1 is a pair of giant stars locked in a rapid 3.8-day orbit. Their dynamic relationship provides clues to how ...