NGC 4826, also known as the Black Eye Galaxy, Messier 64, or M64, is a spiral galaxy located 17 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices, famous for its dark band of dust across ...

Starquakes in stars from cluster M67 reveal hidden pauses that mark major internal changes. These pauses improve how we estimate star ages.

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The First Steps" packed a major punch at CinemaCon with a first look at Silver Surfer and Vanessa Kirby's on-screen pregnancy ...

At a famous 1950 lunch among physicists, Enrico Fermi wondered, "Where are all the aliens?" How far have we come toward ...

A Michigan State University researcher saw X-rays coming from a black hole using the NASA Chandra X-Ray Observatory telescope ...

The SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY is a part of the Smithsonian Institution which, in conjunction with the Harvard ...

After 11 years mapping the Milky Way, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has retired. Scientists hailed it as ...

In new images, scientists have gotten the closest look yet at Sagittarius C -- a 'stellar nursery' where clouds of gas and dust have collapsed to form thousands of new stars.

Sagittarius C is one of the most extreme environments in the Milky Way galaxy. This cloudy region of space sits about 200 ...

Yet despite the drumbeat of evidence, we still know of just one planet in the cosmos with life — the one you’re standing on.