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

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

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

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 ...

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, ...

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

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

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 center of our Milky Way galaxy is the latest in a series of stunning cosmic phenomena that should be visible in August ...

Astronomers found hidden cosmic channels, like tunnels, connecting our solar system to distant stars, reshaping views of ...

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