Astronomers have chased hypervelocity stars for more than a century. These rare objects move so fast that the Milky Way ...

On Jan. 15, 2025, the Gaia spacecraft took its last image. Then the craft ran a final round of engineering tests, fired its thrusters to leave Earth behind, and slipped into an orbit around the Sun, ...

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Astronomers from Cardiff University, UK, have employed the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy (CARMA) ...

They're called ghost particles for a reason. They're everywhere – trillions of them constantly stream through everything: our ...

PD Dr Philipp Girichidis at Heidelberg University’s Centre for Astronomy provide insights into our place in the Milky Way and ...

Their analysis showed that the planet lies about 3,000 parsecs, or just under 10,000 light-years, from Earth. Its mass is ...

It is unclear whether a [3I/ATLAS] would transmit radio signals … such signals would take tens of thousands of years to cross ...

Meet the Port of Astoria’s treasurer, a father and shipbuilder  By JAY CORELLA The Astorian Fisherman, shipbuilder, ...

Commentary: Earth has been called the “Goldilocks planet" because it is positioned just the right distance for life to evolve ...

Deep-sky objects shine and the giant planets show off their satellites as the bright light from the Moon disappears from our ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), one of the Milky Way’s closest companions, continues to astonish astronomers with its prolific stellar activity and explosive past. A recent visual captured by an ...