Astronomers say that mysterious interstellar visitors like 'Oumuamua and 3I/ATLAS are the most common large bodies in the ...

Astronomers have detected a massive gamma-ray explosion coming from outside the galaxy. The explosion's origins and power are ...

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S284p1 sits at the edge of the Milky Way about 15,000 light-years from Earth. As superheated gas falls onto the star, it gets ...

For centuries, scientists have puzzled over globular clusters, the dense star systems that orbit galaxies without dark matter ...

Discover 9 breathtaking Milky Way images captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, revealing the galaxy’s stunning structure ...

Ursa Major III/Unions 1 (UMa3/U1), the faintest known satellite of our galaxy, orbits the Milky Way at a distance of more ...

The first image of the whole Earth from space came in 1972, when astronaut Ron Evans or Harrison Schmitt took a photo from ...

A blowtorch of seething gases erupting from a volcanically growing monster star has been captured by NASA's James Webb Space ...

UAH researchers, led by Dr. Chakrabarti, have used pulsars to detect dark matter sub-halos in the Milky Way for the first ...

The Cigar Galaxy forms stars at a blistering rate, giving rise to colossal super clusters. Hubble’s rare high-resolution data captures this galactic spectacle with unprecedented clarity.