Astrophysicists have reconstructed the movement of stars within globular clusters to understand their evolution and origin.

A trio of Japanese astronomers has challenged the accuracy of the first-ever image showing the supermassive black hole that lies at the heart of our galaxy ... of the Milky Way—shows a dark ...

The Milky Way, the Andromeda Galaxy, and their retinue of a few dozen ... but don't expect it to look anything like the dramatic photograph on this page taken by amateur astronomer Robert Gendler.

Easter Island is home to more than 900 giant Moai, with more still being discovered. The statues average about twice the ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spiral galaxy under the "ram pressure" inside a massive cluster of galaxies.

How would you like to see the farthest thing visible to the naked eye? It’s possible, but you’ll need to bundle up and sit ...

Pismis 24 is a small open star cluster located in the core of the NGC 6357 emission nebula, which is about 8,000 light-years ...

Oct. 31, 2024 — For Halloween, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) reveals a spooktacular image of a dark nebula that creates the illusion of a wolf-like silhouette against a colourful ...

The Milky Way galaxy, in which we live ... In contrast to typical photography, data from observations linking several widely-separated radio telescopes contain many gaps in the completeness ...

Peering through telescopes, watching model meteors destroy model planets and playing dozens of informative games, ...

Photo: Jorge Lugo/Handout via Reuters At the heart of our Milky Way galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole about four million ...