NGC 7496, a dusty barred spiral galaxy located 24 million light-years away in the constellation Grus, harbors a ravenous ...

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

Scientists led by a team from the University of Chicago recently released a study that mapped some of the largest known ...

A giant star that is still being consumed by a supermassive black hole may have caused the largest flare of its kind ever ...

Jupiter is still a month from opposition, rising about 9 p.m. in the NE as November begins, and right after sunset by Thanksgiving. Saturn is the only planetary highlight in the evening now, in ...

Generated during the initial camera commissioning in June 2025, the discovery stems from the observatory's Virgo First Look ...

Huge eruptions from the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole in the distant past may have sterilized much of the inner galaxy ...

The flare was first detected in 2018 by the Catalina Real-Time Transient Survey and the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) in ...

In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Emeritus Dave Eicher invites you to head out in the evening and observe the Pinwheel Galaxy, also known as the Triangulum Galaxy. Charles Messier made this ...

We measure the “warmness” of the dark matter, i.e. the comoving root-mean-square thermal velocity v hrms (1) , with nearly 3000 spiral galaxy rotation curves in the ...

Most of these astrophysical monsters are stars with various behavioral issues, such as explosive supernovae or ridiculously ...

The motions of stars in the Milky Way have revealed a giant outward ripple, set off by a massive event sometime in our galaxy ...