A new photo of spiral galaxy NGC 4402 shows how it's being stripped of its star forming material as it…
Combined data from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory and the Palomar 200-inch telescope have uncovered the remnant of a gamma-ray burst…
Astronomers with the European Southern Observatory have embarked on a decade-long study of some of the largest structures, galaxy clusters,…
The latest image released from the Spitzer Space Telescope is of galaxy M33, also known as the Pinwheel Galaxy. It's…
Most research seems to indicate that planets form around stars in only the first few million years. Many stars have…
It seems that our Milky Way is producing stars much more rapidly than previously predicted by many astronomers. This is…
Quasars are some of the brightest and most distant objects ever observed, and astronomers used to believe they only existed…
Astronomers with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have found the heaviest star ever seen - 80 times the mass of…
A new theory from researchers at Arizona State University challenges the traditional view of the formation of our Solar System.…
M82, or the Starburst Galaxy, is one of the most studied galaxies in the night sky. New research from the…