The James Webb Space Telescope captured massive galaxy cluster RX J2129. located about 3.2 billion light-years away. A ...

For decades, we have been taught that the universe is expanding faster and faster. That belief has influenced our view of ...

Astronomers recently built a precise radio map of the Milky Way’s southern midline, showing 98,000 radio sources.

Astronomers from the International Centre of Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have created the largest low-frequency radio ...

Astronomers may have misread cosmic acceleration for 27 years. The universe may be slowing down, not speeding up.

Supernova remnants, stellar nurseries and more populate the new edge-on view of the Milky Way as seen from Earth’s southern hemisphere.

For the first time, an international research team led by the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy ...

Wa-hoo! One of the closest supernovas in years was discovered at a very early stage in the bright galaxy M101, the Pinwheel Galaxy, in Ursa Major. The galaxy can be found just above the Handle of the ...

A before and after of the Pinwheel Galaxy, courtesy of observer and Unistellar College Astronomy Network member, Scott Kardel. July 11, 2023, Mountain View, CA - In an unprecedented achievement, ...

At a distance of160,000 light-years, an aging red supergiant star in a neighboring galaxy has become the subject of an ...

NGC 6946, or the Fireworks Galaxy, is a spiral galaxy with a high rate of supernova explosions. It's located about 25 million light-years from Earth. NGC 6946 produces stars at a much faster rate than ...

A celestial light show illuminates a distant spiral galaxy, where a hidden supernova briefly outshines its stellar neighbors ...