Astronomers trace the striking pattern to an encounter between a big galaxy and a much smaller one some 50 million years ago.

While Astronomics does fall into the "job as game" category, it's a good job that starts off fairly basic and expands as it goes.

Hubble’s high-resolution imagery allowed researchers to hone in on more of the Bullseye galaxy’s rings — and helped confirm ...

A new telescope could launch as early as late February. SPHEREx will look into deep space and also search for organic ...

The discovery was made by Imad Pasha, a doctoral student at Yale University, who stumbled upon the unique galaxy while examining a ground-based imaging survey. "This ...

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

Astronomers looked more closely at one of seven stars that looked like possible Dyson sphere candidates from earlier observations.

A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that ...

At the time of writing, the planets Alathfar XI and Propus are sites where the Illuminate is "generating dark energy, which ...

FRBs are sporadic, intense flashes of radio wave energy that can be brighter than entire galaxies. In just thousandths of a ...

These jets become elusive the farther back in time astronomers try to look because of the so-called cosmic microwave ...

Ohio State astronomy professor Adam Leroy is the 2025 recipient of the Henry Draper Medal. The Henry Draper Medal, established in 1886, is awarded every four years to a researcher or pair of ...