For the more than 100,000 years, humans have been on Earth, we have looked up at ... By living our modern lives more intelligently, the Milky Way could be visible again from anywhere, including ...

It was once thought that when an aging star engulfed a planet it would be a dramatic event. Now, the Webb telescope has ...

A blob of gas seen outside the Milky Way could be a type of starless, dark matter–dominated galaxy. Some scientists are skeptical.

While solitary black holes should be common, they are hard to find. The one in Sagittarius revealed itself when it passed in front of a dim background star, magnifying the star’s light and slowly ...

They are rich in gas and young stars, making them ideal subjects for studying galaxy evolution. Connected by the Magellanic Bridge, a stream of gas, these galaxies are experiencing tidal forces from ...

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 narrator taking us both outward toward the fathomless end of the Universe ...

NOIRLab shared stunning views of the total lunar eclipse in the night sky over Chile, complete with a blood red moon and beautiful, star-studded Milky Way.

Astronomers have spotted the farthest spiral galaxy ever seen. Its light has travelled 12.8 billion years to reach Earth.

A quiet neighbour of the Milky Way, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), appears to be falling apart. And scientists say they ...

What can merging star clusters teach scientists about the formation and evolution of dwarf galaxies, which are smaller ...