Life on Earth could not exist without carbon. But carbon itself could not exist without stars. Nearly all elements except ...

Life on Earth could not exist without carbon. But carbon itself could not exist without stars. Nearly all elements except hydrogen and helium ...

On New Year’s Day, 1925 attendees at an astronomical conference heard one of the most influential scientific presentations of ...

"This discovery poses a challenge to the Lambda Cold Dark Matter model, which may struggle to account for the formation of such small, aligned groups of galaxies in isolated environments." ...

In Palestine, mammoth balloons are assembled at a NASA complex nestled off a two-lane country road. These balloons can ...

18, 2024 — Galaxy ... by one of Earth's most powerful telescopes. ... Nov. 13, 2024 — Astronomers have identified three ultra-massive galaxies -- nearly as massive as the Milky Way -- already ...

Astronomers have identified a remarkable water reservoir in deep space, circling a huge quasar more than 12 billion light-years away.

A new image resembling a Christmas wreath captures young stars lighting up dense, dark clouds of dust. The image features NGC 602, a star cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a nearby galaxy to the ...

Situated thousands of light-years from Earth, this celestial giant's sheer magnitude challenges our understanding ... WOH 5170 stands out for its sheer size and is considered among the largest stars ...

Space is a big place filled with plenty of mysteries, and even the largest known object in the universe still leaves some ...

Astronomers discover a quasar 12 billion light-years away with a water reservoir 140 trillion times larger than Earth's ...

"These X-rays are powered by winds flowing from the young, massive stars that are sprinkled throughout the cluster," NASA ...