If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. The Tarantula Nebula is known for its beautiful colors, and we’ve seen some stunning ...

Very massive stars (VMSs), which typically have masses about 100 times that of our own sun, are critical components in our ...

Southern astronomers get to see the Milky Way’s core overhead and enjoy many star clusters and nebulae that are hidden for us ...

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On May 20, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope sent its first image to Earth. This photo turned out to be 50% sharper than ...

When astronomers look at distant objects—far away in both space and time—all too often, dust gets in their eyes. Well, not ...

Male (A) and female (B) Romblon black tarantula (Selenobrachys ustromsupasius) A new species of tarantula, the Romblon black tarantula (Selenobrachys ustromsupasius), was recently discovered in ...

The two researchers discovered a new species of tarantula that lives high in the Chiricahua Mountains, about 135 miles southeast of Tucson. The spiders are small as tarantulas go — no more than ...

Mara Corday, who was menaced by a huge hairy spider in the cult horror film Tarantula and appeared in several films thanks to Clint Eastwood, whom she called a “godsend,” has died. She was 95.

Mara Corday, the showgirl, Playboy Playmate and cult movie star of Tarantula, has died at age 95. The Golden Age actress died of arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease on Feb. 9 at her home in ...

The 1987 supernova (SN 1987A) occurred in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), not the Milky Way. The LMC is a smaller satellite of the Milky Way, but astronomers still consider it to be outside our ...