John Martin Schaeberle discovered IC 405 near the end of the 19th century. The object was independently spotted shortly after by astrophotographers Max Wolf and Eugen von Gothard. It’s located in ...

Astronomers have identified a strange new object in deep space, a vast cloud that looks like a galaxy stripped of its stars.

A tiny, dense stellar corpse in a nearby galaxy is pumping out so much energy that, on paper, it should have blown itself ...

Astronomers recently discovered the remains of a dead star that definitely set a record, even if they’re not sure which one. At somewhere between 2.09 and 2.71 times the mass of our Sun, the recently ...

EVANSTON, Ill. (CBS) -- Northwestern University astrophysicists were among those involved in an international research collaboration that has detected a gravitational-wave signal caused by a merger of ...

Strange cosmic objects spotted by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are presently puzzling astronomers. The odd ...

It's been an impressive year for astronomy so far as scientists have broken records for the most distant star and the most distant galaxy ever discovered. The distant objects were spotted even without ...

The Solar system is bigger than NASA thought. There are a lot of huge objects at the edge of the solar system that we have not seen but can indirectly estimate. When astronomers say Kuiper Belt Object ...

The Coma Star Cluster is a large, bright, and relatively close group of stars. It's easily visible to the naked eye and even better with binoculars or a telescope. The cluster is near a massive ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. "What in ...