When I was a kid, I was fascinated by the Powers of 10 video, which came out in the 1970s. Perhaps you remember it, with the ...
A bright star within our Milky Way galaxy photobombed a beautiful new image of a distant galaxy with "patchy" spiral arms.
When their end comes, the stars will explode in a blast making them around 200,000 times brighter than Jupiter does now.
If it exploded today, this future supernova might be close enough to us to pose a threat, but the Sun will have burned out before it happens.
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has teamed up with the MeerKAT radio telescope array to explore how magnetic fields ...
The cluster, full of more than 2,500 newborn stars that blaze blue in the Hubble image, is in a galaxy with far fewer heavy chemical substances than the Milky Way. It's mostly made of hydrogen and ...
The researchers confirmed that two enormous stars, each more than 20 times the mass of the sun, are growing inside ...
O n April 24, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope flew aboard space shuttle Discovery, which makes this year the 35th ...
A whole universe of hidden galaxies lies just beyond what the eye can see. Thanks to a new generation of space telescopes, ...
The last commands have been sent to the ESA's Gaia satellite and, after a dozen years scanning the galaxy, the spacecraft is ...
Scientists, using infrared images from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, have found that the Milky Way’s graceful spiral structure is primarily shaped by two arms extending from a central bar of stars.
Some people in town today for the Yakima River Canyon Marathon may have been looking for a little running inspiration.