Views of a massive galaxy cluster Abell 2256 have been captured by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, ESA’s XMM-Newton and ...

From star births to deaths and a party in a black hole, here are some of the reports we’ve been getting back from the ...

A galaxy cluster once thought to be “dead” is unexpectedly forming stars at an astonishing rate, challenging established ...

An international team of astronomers reports the detection of the first pulsar by the Globular Clusters GMRT Pulsar Search ...

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) have studied one of the largest young star clusters in our galaxy, ...

How do you cool down a phoenix? I don't mean the mythological birds of flame and rebirth, but rather a cosmic namesake with a fittingly fiery nature.

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

Isolated, low-mass galaxies help researchers study the impact of reionization on their star formation histories (SFHs) ...

Compared to their more isolated counterparts, the galaxies in galaxy clusters are often distorted by the gravitational pull ...

The heart of a globular cluster, like Terzan 4, is packed with stars so tightly that individual stars are difficult to distinguish from one another, especially with ground-based telescopes.

The VLT captures a stunning infrared view of Sagittarius C, exposing a rich field of young stars. This breakthrough provides ...