Astronomers have detected the most distant and brightest "space laser," a megamaser, originating from a galactic collision when the univers...

Scientists now understand that the universe forges its heaviest elements, including californium, through extreme cosmic events like neutron...

Black hole rips apart star in a once-in-a-lifetime event called AT 2022wtn, spotted 700 million light-years away during a rare galactic col...

The distant galaxy, called J0107a, was observed as it appeared 11.1 billion years ago, when the universe was about a fifth of its current a...

Astronomers have found a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud. This black hole is 600,000 times the mass of the Sun. The L...

Scientists at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics in Bengaluru have discovered a rare carbon-enhanced metal-poor (CEMP) star that suggests...

Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp IV and Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp VI will return the funds raised to shareholders, Pal...

Branson and the management of VG Acquisition bought 11.5 million shares or 20% of the shares outstanding for $25,000 in a common payout kno...

Branson said he's trying to quell his mounting anticipation about the upcoming space voyage given previous delays, including a hiatus follo...

The listing secures vital new funding for Branson as her competes with Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk.

Virgin Galactic also is setting longer-term sights on shuttling airline travelers around the world at high speeds.

Washington, Dec 7 (IANS) NASA plans to launch on December 10 a balloon-borne instrument to collect information on cosmic rays, high-energy ...

Washington, June 22 (IANS) Astronomers have detected a first-of-its kind compact yet massive, fast-spinning, disk-shaped galaxy that stoppe...

Globular clusters are spherical collections of stars which orbit around a galactic centre such as our Milky-way galaxy.

With surface brightnesses up to 250 times fainter than the night sky, these galaxies can be incredibly difficult to detect, researchers sai...

These star forming episodes may last for several billions of years, depending on the mass, orbit and concentration of the dark satellite, r...

The Hubble Space Telescope has viewed a galactic mega-merger - a product of a collision between two good-sized galaxies, which is slowly ev...