From the deck of a ship or the window of a plane, it feels obvious that “down” points toward Earth and “up” points toward the ...

A huge bar of iron has been discovered lurking inside the iconic Ring Nebula. The structure is enormous, spanning hundreds of ...

Caprock Canyons State Park in the Texas Panhandle has secured certification as an International Dark Sky Park.

When my colleagues and I send them out to explore our solar system, it's important for us to understand the 3D map of our ...

New research presented at an astronomy meeting shows that active black holes are more common in dwarf galaxies than earlier ...

A nearby galaxy is launching an enormous stream of super-heated gas, driven by a precessing jet from its central black hole., ...

A new study reveals a rare-breaking white dwarf star, dubbed RXJ0528+2838, that is somehow generating a rainbow-like "bow ...

Using JWST's Mid-Infrared Instrument, the scientists honed in on stars, all between one and eight times the mass of the sun, ...

Supermassive black holes are mysterious bodies. Now a new preprint study is shedding light on Sagittarius A* by studying what ...

New research suggests that the x-ray light coming from the Milky Way’s central black hole Sagittarius A* has changed ...

Universe Today reports on new results from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission that show evidence of planets forming around very young stars. Planets are created inside discs of gas and dust that ...

How galaxies assemble their stars and grow over billions of years remains one of the central questions in astronomy. Recent results from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), including reports of ...