When astronomers first observed a star that was shredded ... of properties hinting at the shapes of objects. According to co-author Kishore Patra, much of the light emitted from the accretion ...

There's no shortage of round celestial objects in our universe. Planets, moons and stars all exhibit lovely spherical shapes.

The speed of light is the fastest anything can travel. What happens to a photon from a galaxy 25 million light years away on ...

Using various ground-based and space telescopes, an international team of astronomers has observed a highly variable young ...

A huge bipolar outflow of gas and dust, grown from the tumultuous birth of a double-star system, has formed a cosmic ...

Astronomers have observed a galaxy dating to an earlier epoch in the universe's history that surprisingly is shaped much like ...

Light's quantum behavior ... the first image of a photon, a lemon-shaped particle never seen before in physics. —13 billion-year-old 'streams of stars' discovered near Milky Way's center may ...