Astronomers have confirmed a wandering black hole, about seven times the mass of the Sun, 5,000 light-years from Earth.

"Thanks to the high resolution of our new images, we detected a faint structure on the northeast side of this supernova ...

Peering deep into the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals a rich tapestry of more than half a million stars. NASA astronaut Don Pettit used a camera with low light and ...

Astronomers have spotted two huge white dwarf stars which they say are destined to explode together in a supernova - 22 ...

With three space missions under his belt — and more than a year aboard the International Space Station — NASA astronaut Donald ... the greatest views in the galaxy, he was able to take ...

Once mistaken for a fuzzy star cluster, the stunning Squid Galaxy—formally known as Messier 77—has transformed in the eyes of ...

Astronomers have spotted two hefty white dwarf stars - highly compact stellar embers - orbiting close together that appear destined to die in an extraordinarily violent quadruple detonation.

A bright star located about 10,000 light-years from Earth overlaps with the bright core of a more distant galaxy, NGC 5530, which is located 40 million light-years from Earth. | Credit ...