Ancient quasars seen by the James Webb Space Telescope technically shouldn’t exist, but one rare type of dark matter could make sense of that. Ultra-self-interacting dark matter clumped into ...

Kokoro Hosogi, a physics student at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), has achieved a rare honor for an ...

Predictions are uncertain, but the solar system may be pushed farther from the galactic core or even ejected entirely from ...

Galactic astronomy is a branch of astronomy that focuses on the study of galaxies, including their formation, evolution, and the various celestial objects they contain. Recent research in this ...

Star-forming galaxies, including ours, are rich in elements — and secrets. Stars come to life fastest in the early histories of such galaxies, but this process doesn’t last at such a high rate ...

More information: Direct imaging of active galactic nucleus outflows and their origin with the 23 m Large Binocular Telescope, Nature Astronomy (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41550-024-02461-y ...

The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with more than 200 million individually resolved stars.

Using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), astronomers have observed a supermassive galactic open cluster designated Westerlund 1. Results of the study, published Jan. 28 on the pre-print server ...

Jets blasting from supermassive black holes cause gas to cool and fall toward that cosmic titan in a cosmic feeding process.

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For Nature Astronomy, he primarily covers stars ... she analysed the kinematic and chemical properties of nearby stars in the Galactic thick disk and halo to provide a comprehensive view of ...