Astronomers say that mysterious interstellar visitors like 'Oumuamua and 3I/ATLAS are the most common large bodies in the ...

The Gaia space observatory helped astronomers chart 4,000 light-years worth of our home galaxy.

New Curtin University research has uncovered a striking link between the structure of our galaxy and the evolution of Earth's ...

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Discover 9 breathtaking Milky Way images captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, revealing the galaxy’s stunning structure ...

For centuries, scientists have puzzled over globular clusters, the dense star systems that orbit galaxies without dark matter ...

Astronomer, St. Lawrence University and the Adirondack Sky Center, offers a roadmap for what's on view in the morning and evening skies.

The first image of the whole Earth from space came in 1972, when astronaut Ron Evans or Harrison Schmitt took a photo from ...

Astronomers have detected a massive gamma-ray explosion coming from outside the galaxy. The explosion's origins and power are ...

Even more startling, over 99 percent of U.S. residents live under skies impacted by artificial light—effectively erasing the ...

As NASA described it, the stellar jet located on the outskirts of the Milky Way resembles Darth Maul’s double-bladed ...