An astronomer at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo is using data from the Canada–France–Hawaiʻi Telescope (CFHT) on Maunakea ...

Astronomers have long argued that dark matter is the invisible scaffolding that holds galaxies together. Without its immense ...

Astronomers have spotted the most distant and brightest "space laser" ever seen, blasting out from a distant galaxy collision ...

A nearby galaxy is behaving strangely—and now scientists know why. The Small Magellanic Cloud’s stars move in chaotic ...

An astronomer at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo is using data from the Canada-France-Hawaiʻi Telescope (CFHT) on Maunakea to help reconstruct a ...

In a patch of sky about 1.2 billion light-years from Earth, astronomers have found a cosmic rarity: three galaxies caught in a merger, and all three of their central supermassive black holes are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This artist’s impression shows two tiny but very dense neutron stars at the point at which they merge and explode. ESO/L.

The stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud aren’t behaving the way they should. A cataclysmic collision with another nearby ...

An illustration of two stellar-mass black holes merging in the accretion disk of an active galactic nucleus. (Shu-Rui Zhang) ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) - The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), one of the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbors, is undergoing a transformation visible from the southern hemisphere. This change is due to a ...

A fleet of NASA missions has likely uncovered a collision between two ultradense stars in a tiny galaxy buried in a huge stream of gas. Astronomers have never seen this type of explosive event in an ...

"We found a collision within a collision. The galaxy collision triggered a wave of star formation that, over hundreds of millions of years, led to the birth and eventual collision of these neutron ...