The Beehive Cluster, a group of about 1,000 stars, will be visible to skywatchers throughout January. Here's how to see it in ...

Deep space has just delivered a cosmic curveball: an object that behaves so strangely it appears to break the rules ...

Researchers at the University of British Columbia and Dalhousie University have found a young galaxy cluster that appears far ...

Astronomers have chased hypervelocity stars for more than a century. These rare objects move so fast that the Milky Way ...

Beehive cluster, a group of 1,000 stars, will be visible to stargazers in January. How to see it, what’s visible to naked eye ...

Scientists discover asteroid spinning once every 1.88 minutes—the fastest rotation ever found for a large space rock. Five ...

A group of about 1,000 stars are coming to Nevada skies this month. See the details on that and the other astronomical events ...

Astronomers have used the Keck Observatory's DEIMOS multi-object spectrograph to observe a nearby galaxy cluster designated RXC J0032.1+1808. As a result, they found that the cluster undergoes a major ...

NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory is at the center of a new set of images created with a method called “X-arithmetic,” which researchers say helps show how supermassive black holes affect the hot gas ...

Students in a joint UT Austin and UTSA astronomy course say they have zeroed in on an unexpectedly massive black hole parked at the center of Segue 1, a tiny dwarf galaxy about 75,000 light‑years from ...

1 Finnish Centre for Astronomy with ESO (FINCA), University of Turku, Turku, Finland 2 Tuorla Observatory, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Turun yliopisto, Turku, Finland The final, formatted ...