The astrophysicist was one of the first researchers to bring astronomy closer to the general public and to advocate the ...

New Hubble observations explain how blue straggler stars form, showing that binary systems in low-density clusters play a key role ...

A missing star in the Andromeda Galaxy has puzzled astronomers, sparking theories from failed supernovae to stellar mergers.

The night sky has long sparked wonder and curiosity. Early civilizations studied the stars and tracked celestial events, predicted eclipses and used their observations to construct calendars, develop ...

The sheer scale of Carrazco-Gaxiola’s survey, titled “An All-Sky Spectroscopic Reconnaissance of More Than 2,100 K Dwarfs Within 40 Parsecs Using High-Resolution Spectra,” is what sets it apart.

It's one of astronomy's great mysteries: how did black holes get so big, so massive, so quickly. An answer to this cosmic ...

Astronomers have discovered a vast, dense cluster of massive galaxies just 1 billion years after the Big Bang, each forming ...

Astronomy isn't just about gazing at stars, it's about understanding the invisible forces that govern everything from ...

"The knowledge of these will ultimately help us understand the formation of the first stars and planets and how our own Milky ...

Known as dinosaur stars for both their primeval nature and their immense size, Population III stars existed only when the ...

Astronomers believe this barred spiral galaxy could be the oldest example of its kind ever observed. Research led by Daniel ...