I/ATLAS is just the third-ever interstellar object confirmed to be from outside the solar system and which we have telescopes ...

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 ...

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

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

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

High in the Milky Way, a dying giant has thrown astronomers a cosmic curveball. A star known as DFK 52, sitting in the ...

Astrophysicist Edwin Hubble was offered a staff position at the Mount Wilson Observatory in 1919 by the founder and director ...

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

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

M11 is best viewed in the hours between sunset and midnight in August, when the cluster can be found roughly 40 degrees above the southern horizon. Remember, the width of your clenched fist held at ...

A distant galaxy nicknamed "Cosmic Grapes" is bursting with massive star-forming clumps — far more than expected — offering ...