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

New evidence suggests that a dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way called Ursa Major III is actually a star cluster.

One of the best places to study stars is inside "open clusters," which are groups of stars that formed together from the same ...

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

Ursa Major III, the faintest object in our galaxy, orbits the Milky Way at a distance of more than 30,000 light years. Until now, it was considered a dwarf galaxy, thought to consist mainly of dark ...

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 ...

When people picture space, they often imagine endless black emptiness dotted with planets and stars. But new research shows ...

A bright flash of radio waves from 3 billion years after the big bang is illuminating parts of the universe that astronomers ...

At the heart of the Milky Way lies a turbulent, densely packed environment known as the Central Molecular Zone, or CMZ. This region is rich with gas, dust, and massive star formation, making it one of ...

The Big Cypress National Preserve is home to Alligator Alcatraz, which is causing light pollution in one of the first dark ...