This artist's concept depicts a supermassive black hole in the process of shredding a massive star—at least 30 times the mass of our Sun—to pieces. Scientists propose this is what happened around the ...

Supernova remnants, stellar nurseries and more populate the new edge-on view of the Milky Way as seen from Earth’s southern hemisphere.

The multimedia exhibit — part architecture tour, part light show, part history lesson — will play at the Basilica of St. Mary ...

For years, astronomers have been on the hunt for the first generation of stars, primordial relics of the early universe. And ...

Located in the constellation Leo, spiral galaxy NGC 3370 has long been a favorite among astronomers. NGC 3370 is part of a ...