Over 25 years ago my introduction to Mary Ellen Mark’s photography was by way of her stoic series of twins (taken at the ...

Conflicting distance measurements have added to the uncertainty. One data source places one object at 6,500 light years away, ...

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Rare ultra-faint dwarf galaxies beyond the influence of other galaxies show evidence that star formation was stifled long ago ...

Observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope and the VLT have revealed jets blasting from supermassive black holes cause ...

An elongated object near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, known only as ‘X7,’ has piqued the ...

Exoplanets have captured the imagination of the public and scientists alike and as the search continues for more, researchers ...

A new preprint study has taken a closer look at the "universe-breaking" Little Red Dot galaxies discovered in the early ...

The image of M87*, the supermassive black hole at the center of massive elliptical galaxy M87, changed the world. It was the ...

Sisters has been named Oregon's newest 'Dark Sky Community,' in recognition of the city’s efforts to curb light pollution.

A South African telescope has identified a colossal galaxy stretching 3.3 million light-years, over 32 times the size of the ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a dusty yet sparkling scene from one of the Milky Way's satellite ...