Quasars are awe-inspiring – among the brightest objects in the Universe, behind gamma-ray bursts and supernovae. Unlike other ...
Once thought to be 8 billion years old, the star HD 110067 — famous for its six synchronized exoplanets — may be only 2.5 ...
Twenty years ago today a magnetar’s epic tantrum made our planet ring like a bell from tens of thousands of light-years away ...
Astronomers discover a quasar 12 billion light-years away with a water reservoir 140 trillion times larger than Earth's ...
The discovery comes just days before what is anticipated to be a bumper year for exoplanet discovery, with the James Webb Space Telescope scheduled to release more data.
Space is a big place filled with plenty of mysteries, and even the largest known object in the universe still leaves some ...
New imagery has been released from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, which captured a photo of a spiral galaxy more than 76 ...
Year? A light-year is the distance light travels in one year. Light moves incredibly fast — about 186,000 miles (300,000 ...
The return trip to the Earth can take from 35 to 52 minutes ... Its distance is 1500 light years, meaning that the light we see from it left more than a thousand years before the invention ...