Even by celestial standards, the span between a newly found suspected baby planet and its host star is astronomical. Continue reading →

The mother of all cosmic collisions has been spotted between two galaxies containing a total of 400 billion stars, igniting the birth of 2,000 new stars per year! Continue reading →

Astronomers working on a multi-year program with the Hubble Space Telescope have announced the discovery of the most distant supernova ever observed, a stellar explosion that occurred over 10 billion years ago. ->

Stars discovered in the Milky Way's halo could be what remains of smaller galaxies that were eaten to form the our galaxy. ->

What do you get when you combine a galaxy, its central supermassive black hole and some cool astronomical techniques? ->

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope peer back in time to study 69 galaxies when they were just babies.

The US is a nation of immigrants, by and large, and now it seems as if the Milky Way galaxy has its share of immigrants, too, in the form of globular star clusters. A new paper from Australian scientists at Swinburne University of Technology demonstrates that a significant chunk of our galaxy'...

Every once in a while, an astronomy paper comes out that makes me go, "Whoa. Whoa! Wait... really?" This is one of those papers.