"Located about 10 000 light-years away, this ‘cosmic bat’ is flying between the southern constellations of Circinus and Norma ...

A mysterious bow shock around the white dwarf RXJ0528+2838 is challenging astronomers’ understanding of how dead stars ...

In Chile's Atacama Desert, the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) is under construction on the summit of Cerro Armazones, at an ...

Astronomers wonder why there aren't more stars.

A new image captured by the Very Large Telescope reveals stars and gas orbiting the "invisible giant" at the heart of our ...

A galaxy made almost entirely of dark matter, an elusive form of matter that doesn’t interact with light, was spotted by ...

A telescope in Chile has revealed in unprecedented detail the swirling splendor of star-forming gases at the heart of our ...

Astronomers have captured the central region of our Milky Way in a striking new image, unveiling a complex network of filaments of cosmic gas in unprecedented detail. Obtained with the Atacama Large ...

Astronomers using the Very Large Telescope study faint brown dwarfs in the RCW 36 nebula to understand substellar populations and the initial mass function in a young massive cluster.

A sweeping new ALMA image has peeled back the veil on the Milky Way’s core, exposing a dense network of cold gas filaments ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted the most distant “jellyfish galaxy” ever seen — a cosmic oddity ...