Some stars appear to defy time itself. Nestled within ancient star clusters, they shine bluer and brighter than their neighbors, looking far younger than their true age. Known as blue straggler stars, ...

This NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month brings us a scene from the distant universe. Pictured here is the galaxy cluster MACS J1149.5+2223, or MACS J1149 for short, which is ...

"Until now, it was unknown what type of star would remain after the merger." ...

While two teams have ideas about what happened to yellow supergiant M31-2014-DS1, ultimately, it remains a mystery.

Space telescopes are all the rage, and rightfully so. The images they take are spectacular, and they’ve greatly increased what we know about the universe. Surely, any picture taken of, say, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured a colorful portrait of a nearby stellar cradle, revealing a wealth of insights about ...

The new Dobsonian telescope and free astronomy courses will help residents chart galaxies and their own cosmic curiosity ...

A professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, he was a key contributor to a landmark paper that laid out how the ...

Sujata Bajaj returns to Delhi with ‘SPACESCAPES’, her first abstract solo in the city in over 16 years. Opening with a ...

This artist’s rendering illustrates a precessing jet erupting from the supermassive black hole at the center of galaxy VV 340a. Optical observations from the W. M. Keck Observatory revealed extended, ...

Cloud-9 is a starless, gas-rich, dark-matter cloud considered a "relic" or remnant of early galaxy formation, NASA said. This discovery marks the first confirmed detection of such an object in the ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An artist's impression of the runaway supermassive black hole, which is leaving behind a ...