A Michigan State University researcher saw X-rays coming from a black hole using the NASA Chandra X-Ray Observatory telescope ...

Stars are the architects of nearly all the chemical elements in the universe, including ones crucial to life as we know it, ...

A black hole is a region of space where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape. There are two main ...

Astronomers have discovered strong evidence of a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of ...

The discovery was made by precisely tracking the motion of 21 stars located on the outskirts of the Milky Way. These stars ...

In new images, scientists have gotten the closest look yet at Sagittarius C -- a 'stellar nursery' where clouds of gas and dust have collapsed to form thousands of new stars.

Derry astrophysicist Dr. Matt Nicholl has been awarded a prestigious award for his pioneering research into supernovae and ...

An international research team led by Dr. ZHANG Suinan from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of ...

The next year of science on the James Webb Space Telescope has been announced amid mounting budgetary uncertainty that could ...

NASA 's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the earliest evidence of light shining through the cosmos. But the fact that this telescope can see it has baffled researchers.

Such hydrogen atoms may eventually transform into molecular gas, the basic fuel for star formation. Therefore, these cold gas ...