Artist’s impression of a galactic wind driven by a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy. Image Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) Astronomers have observed the furthest galaxy yet being…

Artist impression of a pulsar. Image Credit: MichaelTaylor/Shutterstock.com Neutron stars are among the densest objects in the Universe, the result of supernovae explosions. The only thing denser is black holes,…

This composite image of Abell 2261 shows galaxies in the cluster (optical), hot gas (pink) pervading the cluster (X-ray), and the large elliptical galaxy in the center of the cluster….

Given where it is speculated to be, Planet Nine would be an icy world. Image credit: Pe3k/Shutterstock.com An astronomer has outlined a new way of finding the elusive Planet Nine,…

Artist impression of a black hole. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Jeremy Schnittman The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel, and Andrea Ghez for…

The Andromeda Galaxy is similar in mass to the Milky Way, but it has almost ceased star formation, while the Milky Way is still hard at it. Now we might…

IC 1623B is a merging pair of galaxies, one of which is hidden in the optical wavelengths, but exceptionally bright in the infrard where the JWST operates. Image credit: ESA/Webb,…

Far from being the nearly dead galaxy astronomers have painted it, our own Milky Way is still a vibrant source of new stars, a soon-to-be-published paper claims. Image credit: Zakharchuk/Shutterstock.com For…

An illustration of the spherical kilanova. Image Credit: Albert Sneppen Astronomers have been left stunned by a perfectly spherical explosion produced by a collision between two neutron stars 140 million light-years from…