It's well past the Fourth of July, but you can still easily find fireworks in the sky if you look…
While Fourth of July festivities tonight may bring brilliant colors blazing across the night sky, only 23 million light-years away…
Could a strange X-ray signal coming from the Perseus galaxy cluster be a hint of the elusive dark matter in…
In any galaxy there are hundreds of X-ray binaries: systems consisting of a black hole capturing and heating material from…
Shock waves! Fast-moving particles! Magnetic fields! This image has it all. Behold the merging galaxy clusters MACS J0717+3745 about five billion…
Is that a tractor beam trying to latch on to galaxy ESO 137-001? While the bold blue stripe in the…
Contradicting past theories, cold gas has been found in abundance in some elliptical galaxies -- showing that there must be…
One of the fastest-moving pulsars ever observed is spewing out a record-breaking jet of high-energy particles that stretches 37 light…
One star player in this week’s findings out of the 223rd meeting of the American Astronomical Society has been the…
This week, astronomers announced the detection of a rare event, a star being torn to shreds by a massive black…