After a blue dwarf galaxy shot through it like an arrow, the large Bullseye now has nine rings—six more than any other galaxy ...

As per NASA, the rare sight of a Wolf-Rayet star – among the most luminous, most massive, and most briefly detectable stars ...

Data from the Gaia spacecraft shows that even unassuming stars can host monumental companions like massive planets.

The rings are regions of higher density, where the galactic material has been pushed together by the rippling shocks. The ...

In a study that was published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, astronomers used Hubble to find eight observable ...

Astronomers have long relied on two main methods to detect exoplanets—the transit method, which looks for dips in a star’s ...

By tracing the corkscrew wobble of two stars as they move through the sky, the Gaia space mission has discovered one new ...

G alaxy LEDA 1313424 is a beauty. It is 2.5 times the size of the Milky Way and has something no other galaxy has: A series ...

When NASA detects two black holes colliding, the cosmos is in a state of chaos. Black holes lie at the centre of most ...

A small blue dwarf galaxy passed through the massive Bullseye galaxy. This impact created nine rings of new stars.

Supermassive black holes are often regarded as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful ...