The Cassiopeia A supernova remnant has been studied for over 2 million seconds since the Chandra mission began in 1999, with X-rays captured by Chandra (blue) and infrared data from Webb (orange, ...

A novel theoretical model based on universal expansion and star formation suggests that our universe might not have the ...

To the naked eye, the Milky Way (the Vía Láctea) is a path of pale white light ... The European Southern Observatory’s ...

To the naked eye, the Milky Way (the Vía Láctea) is a path of pale white light ... The European Southern Observatory’s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA). However, this new ...

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.

This swath of dust, which blocks out light from the bright nebula Gum 55 behind it, is known as the Dark Wolf Nebula.

Black hole light echoes are an extreme form of gravitational lensing. To measure the masses and spins of black holes, ...

University of Arizona astronomers are discovering unexpected information about one of the brightest stars in the Milky Way.

The coordination is crucial since the NRAO operates the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia, which is home to the world’s ...

The results of our study provide the first solid evidence that globular clusters formed through multiple star-formation ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) reveals a stunning view of star-forming region Sagittarius C ...

Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery of a neutron star in the Milky Way that rotates at an astonishing 716 times per second, placing it among the fastest-spinning stars ever observed. The ...