People often think about archaeology happening deep in jungles or inside ancient pyramids. However, a team of astronomers has ...

As the great detective said, "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the ...

NASA's Chandra telescope was used to uncover the explosive past of an ancient dead star through 'space archaeology.' ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a star and a spiral galaxy, both in the constellation Virgo. But the photo is ...

The subject of today’s NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is the stunning spiral galaxy NGC 5530. This galaxy is situated 40 million light-years away in the constellation Lupus, the Wolf, and ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has unveiled an awe-inspiring celestial spectacle of a spiral galaxy interacting with a ...

Do we inhabit a cosmic wasteland teeming with remnants of massive stellar explosions? Recent research proposes that approximately 10 million years ago, Earth and its Moon were bombarded by debris from ...

The term refers to astronomers learning about the past from scattered remains in space, much like how terrestrial archaeologists examine the Earth. An artist's impression of a supernova explosion.

Mining data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, the team of astronomers studied the relics that one star left behind after ...