Graduate students from the Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI) participated in an observational training ...

Looking for a really big story, I naturally headed for "Galaxies in Collision." Bradley Whitmore of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore brought us up to speed. We've known for a ...

In 1923, Edwin Hubble captured a pulsing star within the Andromeda Galaxy on a glass photographic ... about the width of our solar system, spiraling into an abyss with the mass of 6.5 billion ...

Astronomers from Swinburne University in Australia and elsewhere have employed the Keck II telescope to investigate the ...

A new model has been developed to simulate interstellar activity within our solar system and the nearby Alpha Centauri system ...

In late 2017, a mysterious object tore through our solar system at breakneck speed. Astronomers scrambled to observe the fast ...

Be careful out there, astronomers: There could be a dark galaxy in our midst. In research published today in Science Advances, researchers from the Chinese National Academy of Sciences discovered ...

Webb Telescope Captures Its First Direct Images of Carbon Dioxide Outside Solar System Mar. 17 ... are common in the galaxy, yet are absent from our ... Mar. 13, 2025 — Water once existed ...

This week is International Dark Sky Week. Lights that are aimed upwards or not properly capped illuminate the atmosphere and ...

Astronomers have discovered the most distant and thus earliest spiral galaxy ever seen, using the James Webb Space Telescope ...

Tatooine-Like Planet Outside the Solar System May Orbit Two Failed Stars, Scientists Say NEW YORK (AP) — A new Tatooine-like planet outside the solar system may orbit two failed stars ...