The Helix Galaxy, located 42 million light years away, is an unusual object as it is both a polar ring and a lenticular ...

That’s exactly what unfolded in a project led by Dr. Veselin Kostov of the SETI Institute and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight ...

Views of a massive galaxy cluster Abell 2256 have been captured by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, ESA’s XMM-Newton and ...

Imagine dropping your phone into a campfire and later finding only a pile of ash. No serial number, no photos, no clue the ...

Scientists believe the Milky Way contains up to 400 billion stars and at least as many planets. The largest galaxy known, IC 1101, has more than 100 trillion stars. Step outside on a clear night and ...

New research is shedding light on what researchers call "lite" intermediate-mass black holes, which are smaller, but still ...

Because it doesn't interreact with light or electromagnetism, dark matter exists to us only through its influence on visible ...

Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is making waves again, this time for a snapshot of a spiral galaxy located 250 million light-years ...

These black holes are the most distant and stable objects we know. Using a technique called very long baseline interferometry ...

The light that the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope collected to create this image reached the telescope after a journey of ...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory provides a new look at the Andromeda galaxy in this multi-wavelength image that includes ...