The repeated bursts of gamma rays were detected over the course of a day, according to scientists. That’s highly unusual ...

Discover Our Solar System Through Detailed 3D Models Forget dusty textbooks and flat diagrams. We’re talking about ...

The Cigar Galaxy forms stars at a blistering rate, giving rise to colossal super clusters. Hubble’s rare high-resolution data captures this galactic spectacle with unprecedented clarity.

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

S284p1 sits at the edge of the Milky Way about 15,000 light-years from Earth. As superheated gas falls onto the star, it gets ...

The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) captured the center of the Milky Way galaxy in infrared. The ...

Where exactly are we in the Milky Way? This video maps our true cosmic address with Gaia data—central bar, spiral arms, dark-matter halo, and the Orion Arm where the Solar System lives—and explains ...

Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, the Pei-Ling Chan Endowed Chair in the College of Science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured infant stars carving peaks of dust and gas in the Pismis 24 star cluster.

The world’s largest space telescope, comprising thousands of antennae in the southern hemisphere, will generate massive ...

Scientists have discovered a gamma ray explosion outside our galaxy that’s not only exceptionally powerful, but also ...