Using the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) and Parkes 64-m telescope, an international team of astronomers has ...

By mapping the brightest explosions in the universe, scientists may have uncovered a megastructure that defies our ...

A repeating nova eruption in the Large Magellanic Cloud has shattered temperature records, revealing unexpected chemical ...

The halo is more extended that astronomers originally thought, and contains enough hydrogen gas to resolve the problem of the ...

Researchers conducted the first-ever near-infrared analysis of an extragalactic recurrent nova and found it is one of the ...

In the grand puzzle of the cosmos, one question continues to defy easy answers: how fast is the universe expanding?

A new analysis of the sky has finally confirmed where the missing half of the Universe's visible matter has been hiding.

Photographer extraordinaire Don Pettit is about to return to Earth following a seven-month stay aboard the space station. Take a moment to enjoy his best work.

The Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope captured imagery of young star system ...

In recent years, astronomers have been able to study the motion of the stars in the galaxy with outstanding precision. And ...

For decades, scientists have known that ordinary matter — everything made of atoms — accounts for just 15% of the universe’s ...

A team of researchers at Nagoya University has discovered evidence that the Small Magellanic Cloud is potentially being torn ...