The Hubble Space Telescope is marking 36 years in orbit with a fresh look at a familiar cosmic nursery, offering both a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two planets crashed into one another in a violent, chaotic collision that astronomers recently witnessed 11,000 light-years away ...

In a galaxy 500 million light-years away, two supermassive black holes could merge, spreading gravitational waves across the ...

When Anastasios Tzanidakis was sifting through some older telescope observations, he stumbled across something that should not be occurring. A star around 11,000 light-years from Earth in the ...

A razor-thin spike of radio light, tuned to a wavelength of about 18 centimeters, just traveled more than 8 billion light-years and still arrived loud enough to stand out in MeerKAT’s data. That ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

Scientists have traced a 3,000-light-year-long cosmic jet streaming out from the first black hole ever imaged to its likely source point with the help of "significantly enhanced coverage" from the ...

A researcher discovered the rare cosmic event by noticing strange dips in a star's brightness in old telescope data. The collision created a hot cloud of rocks and dust, which researchers detected ...

A long, narrow filament of gas and dust has been identified within the Milky Way, stretching over 300 light-years while ...