Using the Gemini-South telescope, astronomers have performed high-resolution near-infrared spectroscopy of stars in a Galactic globular cluster known as Gran 5. They found that this cluster harbors ...

Every constellation has something within its borders worth tracking down, if you just look hard enough. Here are five to ...

Open clusters contain between a few dozen and a few thousand stars, all formed from the same initial cloud of gas and dust. This Hubble image of a loosely bound collections of stars reveals a portion ...

The neutron star 4U 1820-30 is one of the fastest spinning bodies in the universe, spinning at 716 times a second and ...

Using the Gemini-South telescope, astronomers have performed high-resolution near-infrared spectroscopy of stars in a Galactic globular cluster known ... SpaceX sent up 6,000 pounds of cargo ...

The galaxy cluster is filled with bubbles blown into X-ray emitting gas, producing some of the deepest sounds ever heard. This scene of cosmic chaos shows a section of the immense Perseus galaxy ...

Imaged by the Gemini North telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii, the giant elliptical galaxy at the center of the image is NGC 1270. The galaxy has long since given up the ghost in terms ... 70,000 ...

The resulting image (seen above) made the shortlist in the Animal category at this year’s Close-Up Photographer of the ... It’s common to see such clusters of toads at this time of year.

Third place went to Chris Romaine for an up-close shot of a cannabis leaf. Other neat images (which again, you can see in the selection above) included a shot of a cluster of octopus eggs ...

Close-up image of the ghost forest along the coastline ... pressure" from hot intergalactic gas in the dense Virgo galaxy cluster, which compresses one side and pulls the other.