The James Webb Space Telescope is known for being able to see deep into space, providing scientists (and us) with some of the ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a sparkling cloudscape from one of the Milky Way's galactic neighbors, a ...

Astronomers have been identifying protoplanetary disks for many decades—structures that evolve into solar systems like our ...

Using new observations with the ALMA telescope array in Chile, researchers have compiled the most precise map of three regions in the Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone to date, providing valuable ...

The Milky Way, one of astronomy’s most dazzling phenomena, is our home galaxy with a disk of stars spanning more than 100,000 light years.

For decades, astronomers have discovered hundreds of protoplanetary disks—structures believed to represent the early stages ...

UC Berkeley astronomers discovered a rogue black hole devouring a star 2,600 lightyears from its galaxy's core — the first ...

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What is Space Jaws? A covert black hole revealed itself to astronomers in 2025 with a spectacular burst of radiation known as ...

Astronomers have spotted an apparent supermassive black hole snacking on a star 600 million light-years away, wandering ...

Astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to image "peculiar" galaxy Arp 184 (NGC 1961) about 190 million light-years away.

Dubbed AT2024tvd, the burst of radiation from this " tidal disruption event " (TDE) was also picked up by NASA's Chandra ...