Astronomers have detected a massive gamma-ray explosion coming from outside the galaxy. The explosion's origins and power are ...

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For generations, astronomers have pondered the origins of globular clusters, which are among the universe’s oldest and ...

This image provided by the European Southern Observatory shows a powerful explosion, orange dot at the center of the image, ...

At a wind farm in Zunyi, Guizhou province, summer nights are marked by clear skies and an expanse of stars. Several days of ...

Astronomers using the Chandra X-ray Telescope have discovered an "exhaust vent attached to a “chimney” of hot gas blowing ...

The signal, a gamma ray burst, kept repeating — which has never been seen before, and, according to astronomers, should be ...

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 ...

S284p1 sits at the edge of the Milky Way about 15,000 light-years from Earth. As superheated gas falls onto the star, it gets ...

For centuries, scientists have puzzled over globular clusters, the dense star systems that orbit galaxies without dark matter ...

As NASA described it, the stellar jet located on the outskirts of the Milky Way resembles Darth Maul’s double-bladed ...

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