Astronomers have just found the oldest, most distant quasar, 13.03 billion light-years from Earth. It sheds light on how black…
Scientists want to know how dark space really is. And can that tell us something about the number of galaxies…
An international team of astronomers just found that a presumed supernova is actually something much rarer. Astronomers, led by Anna…
A team of astrophysicists has just demonstrated that the dust particles in space contain ice. The interstellar medium—matter between the…
Have you ever heard about stars packed inside the shell of another, larger star? Thorne-Żytkow objects are stars within stars.…
Powerful gravitational waves reached the Earth far away from the depths of space. It’s the heaviest black hole merger ever.…
In a recent study, using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, scientists mapped the supermassive halo of gas surrounding the Andromeda galaxy.…
Supergiant stars are the largest stars in the Universe. They are also the most massive, and most luminous stars in…
K-type stars are very stable for most of their lives. That’s why they may be the best stars to study…