M11 is best viewed in the hours between sunset and midnight in August, when the cluster can be found roughly 40 degrees above ...

Two of the objects in the arrangement are cold brown dwarfs, which will serve as a benchmark for others throughout the Milky ...

In the past decade, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has revealed the nature, history, and behavior of ...

Ursa Major III, once considered a dark-matter-dominated dwarf galaxy, may actually be a dense star cluster. New research suggests its gravity is maintained by a core of black holes and neutron stars, ...

The black hole, spotted 5 billion light-years away in the Cosmic Horseshoe, could be the most massive ever found.

A team of international astronomers has unveiled a massive, previously unknown cloud of gas and dust streaming toward the ...

Newly identified Midpoint cloud reveals rare insight into star formation and the movement of galactic material toward the center of the Milky Way. A group of astronomers from around the world has ...

NASA has found another big cosmic structure orbiting a red dwarf - and this one allows the scientists to study due to the current temperature inside.

The study reveals that DFK 52, a red supergiant star, has shed a significant amount of mass, creating a vast bubble of gas ...

In a groundbreaking study published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, scientists have reevaluated the nature of Ursa ...

Investigating solar corona structures has led Paul Bellan, Caltech professor of applied physics, and his former graduate ...

Astronomers from around the world have made a groundbreaking discovery within the Milky Way Galaxy that promises to offer ...