Galaxies

Zooming in on Galaxy M87 reveals answers about the turbulent environment surrounding the invisible black hole at its center

What fuels a white dwarf's luminous nuclear detonation?

The "time tunnel into the distant past" gives us a glimpse of galaxies as they looked up to 13.2 billion years ago

Ferrying space shuttles across the country is just one of the very odd jobs given to the workhorse jumbo jet

NASA's Curiosity has completed its longest trek yet. The Mars rover journeyed more than 30 meters on its 29th Martian day, which ended September 5 at 2:37 A.M.

Upcoming telescope projects on Earth and in space will map out billions of stars and galaxies all around us

NASA's infrared WISE spacecraft found about 130 glowing black holes in a small region of space, meaning that at least two million active black holes dot the sky. John Matson reports

Only about 0.5 percent of Milky Way-like galaxies have companions like our satellite galaxies, the Magellanic Clouds. John Matson reports

A new study indicates that stellar explosions can involve many different kinds of stars

Hot stars booted out of their galactic homes may be responsible for creating the conditions that led to today's universe

In a new book, astronomer Bryan Gaensler explores the extremes of the universe

Three billion years after the big bang most galaxies were clumpy and odd-shaped, but at least one had already assumed a familiar form, and may elucidate how modern galaxies got their shapes