Most cosmic dust exhibits random atomic structures, and appears like soot. Thanks to NGC 6302’s extreme stellar energy, the ...

"Our approach gives astronomers an idea of how many spots a star might have, where they are located, and how bright or dark ...

When NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launches in October 2026, it won't just be peering into the distant universe to ...

Fresh results from near-infrared instruments foretell a bright future for finding life elsewhere in the Milky Way ...

The Andromeda galaxy (M31) has been captured by the Chandra X-ray Telescope. See the imagery and hear a sonification of it.

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

Images taken with the MIRI infrared camera on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have made it possible to observe the ...

Scientists have revealed the exact date that the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy will erupt into life, and ...

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

The Celestron NexStar 8 SE telescope is rarely discounted, but right now it has $200 off at Amazon, so this telescope deal is ...

The center of the Milky Way, which Dyches refers to as "the core," became visible in June and is expected to shine every ...

The Milky Way is expected to shine every night through August as it gets higher in a darker sky throughout the United States, including Ohio.