M11 is best viewed in the hours between sunset and midnight in August, when the cluster can be found roughly 40 degrees above ...

In the past decade, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has revealed the nature, history, and behavior of ...

Two of the objects in the arrangement are cold brown dwarfs, which will serve as a benchmark for others throughout the Milky ...

Ursa Major III, once considered a dark-matter-dominated dwarf galaxy, may actually be a dense star cluster. New research suggests its gravity is maintained by a core of black holes and neutron stars, ...

Our Milky Way is one of more than 100 galaxies bound together by gravity.

A shooting star streaks across the Milky Way's luminous arm, its brilliant trail dissolving into the velvet darkness that ...

The study reveals that DFK 52, a red supergiant star, has shed a significant amount of mass, creating a vast bubble of gas ...

NASA has found another big cosmic structure orbiting a red dwarf - and this one allows the scientists to study due to the current temperature inside.

High in the Milky Way, a dying giant has thrown astronomers a cosmic curveball. A star known as DFK 52, sitting in the massive Stephenson 2 cluster about 19,000 light-years away, has been caught ...

In a groundbreaking study published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, scientists have reevaluated the nature of Ursa ...

We live inside the Milky Way, yet most of us rarely stop to think about just how unusual it really […] ...

Tourist offerings like the Jasper Dark Sky Festival in Alberta can help protect dark skies by generating support among ...