If confirmed, this disappearing act might provide the closest and best observational evidence for the birth of a black hole ...

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered what seems to be a galaxy that is the most heavily dominated by ...

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For decades, astronomers have been watching WOH G64, an enormous heavyweight star in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy visible with the naked eye from the Southern Hemisphere. This star is more ...

Since it turned on, the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed dozens of mysterious red blobs in space. The so-called Little ...

Observations of a distant quasar reveal that supermassive black holes may suppress star formation across intergalactic distances.

To capture higher-definition and sharper images of cosmological objects, astronomers sometimes combine the data collected by ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is once again giving us a glimpse of something that is thousands of light-years away from the ...

Webb Telescope finds crystalline water ice around star HD 181327. This discovery could reveal how icy bodies contribute to ...

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to peer inside the heart of spiral galaxies, where young stars carve out glowing paths. The space observatory, named after a North Carolina native, ...

Space rarely gives up its secrets easily. For instance, what looks like a single ...