NGC 4536 is a starburst galaxy with rapid star formation due to gas compression. Its bar-like structure channels gas toward ...

Herbig-Haro 49/50, aka the 'Cosmic Tornado', as seen by Spitzer in January 2006. The source of the 'tornado', a Class 1 ...

Webb has filled in many gaps left by Voyager 2, the only spacecraft to visit the planet. In 2022, the telescope captured ...

The most elusive planetary aurora in the Solar System has finally been revealed in all its gently glowing glory.

Could supernovas have triggered ancient mass extinctions on Earth? New research explores how cosmic explosions may have ...

Astronomers have uncovered a spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away that hosts a supermassive black hole launching ...

The next partial eclipse will happen in the early hours of March 29, with it being visible mostly in the northeast starting ...

Believe it or not, we've seen a few optical illusions in space over the year. Well, we haven't seen them – the Hubble ...

The strange sight is actually two galaxies, with the light of the second warped around the one at the front as a result of its massive gravity.