One of the largest emission nebulae in the far northern sky can be found in IC 1396, a bright glow in Cepheus that contains several complex objects. Among them are the red supergiant star Mu Cephei; ...

Astronomers have revealed that our Milky Way galaxy has a 50/50 chance of colliding with its massive neighbor, the Andromeda ...

Ancient Chinese astronomers were careful in how they described celestial phenomena when reporting to the emperor. To ensure ...

Observations with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have provided new clues about how the exoplanet WASP-121b has formed ...

To address this difficulty, astrophysicists from Villanova drafted in artificial intelligence (AI) in the hope that it could ...

Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral galaxies colliding is less than previously thought, with a ...

ASKAP J1832 pulses every 44 minutes in both radio and X-rays—something never seen before—hinting at an entirely new type of ...

A study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics has identified four previously unknown primordial open cluster (OC) groups in ...

The brutal star-destroying tidal disruption event is only the second ever seen in interacting galaxies.

Astronomers have spotted a star acting unlike any other ever observed as it unleashes a curious combination of radio waves ...