"We are getting closer to unlocking the secrets of how stars and planets formed in the harsh conditions of the early universe ...
A research team led by Assistant Professor Makoto Miyoshi of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) has ...
Following the initial flare in the SMC, observations with ground- and space-based telescopes revealed the outburst was indeed ...
The first fragment captures approximately 100 million celestial sources, including stars within our Milky Way and distant ...
Near the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy roughly 200,000 light-years from Earth, lies the young ...
Astronomers hypothesize that a long-ago dwarf galaxy dubbed Loki may have merged with the Milky Way when our galaxy was in ...
At the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory, 13,000 feet above sea level on the Sierra Negra volcano of Mexico, ...
It takes the Earth one year to orbit all the way around the sun. But the sun’s path around the Milky Way is much bigger. It ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered the first brown dwarf star candidates outside the Milky Way. The European Space Agency (ESA) said that these candidates reside in the star cluster NGC 602 ...
For 30 years, celestial bodies have been discovered that have not made it to the stars – but so far only in the Milky Way.
The Milky Way might belong to a much larger cosmic structure. New research connects the galaxy to the Shapley Concentration.
The photo of the day “Milky Way, Venus and Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS at Haleakala” comes to us via Jeanna Thacker. Send your ...