astronomy

Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), astronomers have revealed the closest pair of supermassive …

Star-forming galaxies are responsible for creating gamma rays that until now had not been associated with a known origin, researchers from …

From the broadcasting of major events to tracking major developments on the planet and in the atmosphere, satellites …

A research team, led by astronomers from the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC), …

Astronomers have presented an explanation for the shapes of planetary nebulae. The discovery is based on a set …

A gigantic, balloon-like structure has been hiding in plain sight, right in the center of our own galaxy. …

A renegade star exploding in a distant galaxy has forced astronomers to set aside decades of research and …

Astronomers have found the ghostly remains of one of the Universe’s first stars inside a rare, ancient star …

Dark matter has been a mystery to scientists for a long time. A team of physicists from Vanderbilt …

We’ve been staring at the stars and wondering what was up there for centuries. We’ve been using mirrors …