Ursa Major III was considered a dark matter galaxy, but was found to be a compact star cluster with a dense core of black ...

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 impending merger of the two galaxies hints at what might be in store for the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy if and ...

At about 1,700 years old, MSH 15-52, sometimes called the "cosmic hand" or " hand of God " for its unusual shape, is one of ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

An artist’s concept of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Scientists at Durham University used powerful supercomputers and fresh math tricks to peer into the cosmic unknown. What ...