A fractured “ice tongue” is visible in the imagery.
The earliest example of the Milky Way cannibalising a smaller galaxy for its growth involved a cosmic meal that left a scar at the heart of our galaxy.
The reclassification of Pluto as a dwarf planet continues to stir up a hornet’s nest of controversy and debate, as Space.com meets one astronomer who believes the decision to have been a mistake.
Taking measurements of the same CME from different vantage points in the solar system revealed the true extent of a solar eruption.
Astronomers have discovered a hitherto unseen population of galaxies with fading radio lobes, revealing what happens to these vast outflows when their black hole engines stall.
Japan recently gave the world a look at the spacecraft of its MMX mission, which will launch on Oct. 19 to grab pieces of the Mars moon Phobos and haul them back to Earth.
A mysterious hum of gravitational waves that fills the cosmos may be the echo of long-dead “dark stars” that served as the seeds of the first supermassive black holes.
Stars scattered across the cosmos sparkle in the appropriately named Chandelier Cluster.
New research suggests that if dark matter is composed of “dark photons,” it would not have heated the early cosmos like scientists thought.
China aims to launch its Chang’e 7 moon mission on Aug. 24 to send a lander, a rover, a hopper and a wide range of science experiments to the lunar south pole.