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A coalition of astronomers calls for renaming the Milky Way’s two brightest satellite galaxies, along with other astronomical objects and facilities that bear the name of a Portuguese explorer who murdered and enslaved Indigenous people.

Fast radio bursts — fleeting blasts of energy that are brighter than entire galaxies — remain mysterious. Heres what we know (and dont know) about FRBs.

Astronomers have found a missing link in the evolution from stars in binary systems to colliding neutron stars, in the form of stripped, intermediate-mass 'helium stars.'

Who is the greatest astronomer of all time? No astronomer can be deemed the best, but here are some of the most famous names in the history of astronomy.

Astronomers have found a missing link in the evolutionary progressing of colliding neutron stars, in the form of stripped, intermediate-mass helium stars.

The cosmos is a hostile but beautiful place; from Earth, its phenomena—from our Sun and the aurorae it generates to nebulae and distant galaxies—are worth capturing.

The Tarantula Nebula is a star formation region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Tarantula is about 160,000 light-years away and is highly luminous for a non-stellar object. Its the brightest and largest star formation region in the entire Local Group of galaxies.

It doesn't take a huge leap of imagination to see why M64 is better known as the Evil Eye galaxy.

NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and James Webb Space Telescope have joined forces to produce stunning composite images of the cosmos.

NASA has shared a new view of some famous space images, by combining infrared data from Webb with X-ray data from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory.