For 25 years, one of the Milky Way’s strangest stellar explosions hid its culprit behind its own debris. Now the dust has ...

The Whirlpool galaxy (M51) is a classic grand spiral galaxy. It was the first object identified as a spiral, way back in 1845 ...

Omega Centauri black hole: NASA's Hubble and Webb have confirmed the first stellar-mass black hole ever found in Omega ...

Astronomers used the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes to find a stellar black hole in a globular cluster roughly 18,000 ...

The first of 10,000 missing black holes in the Omega Centauri globular cluster has been found thanks to teamwork by the ...

The massive globular star cluster Omega Centauri has puzzled astronomers for decades. It should be filled with black holes ...

What can nearby white dwarfs teach astronomers about star populations? This is what a recent study published in the Monthly ...

IT IS ONE of the biggest mysteries in cosmology—and getting bigger all the time. Ever since Edwin Hubble, an American astronomer, published observations of distant galaxies in 1929, scientists have ...

Astronomers have long suspected that sugar exists in deep space—frontiers beyond our solar system. That hypothesis was proven ...

A century ago, Edwin Hubble began the race to the edge of the cosmos Damond Benningfield In 1930, Albert Einstein met with astronomers (including Edwin Hubble, at Einstein's left, back row) at Mount ...

Jim Baggott’s Discordance is an attempt to describe the history of cosmology throughout the past century or more, delving ...