In the meantime, there remains a chance to glimpse Gaia through a small telescope before its final retirement. Uwe Lammers, ...

Palomar 5 is a unique star cluster that stretches across 30,000 light-years and is located about 80,000 light-years from ...

But researchers have used the James Webb Space Telescope, a collaboration of NASA and its European and Canadian space ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way — the ...

Researchers believe that a supernova in our galaxy could reveal the secrets of dark matter by emitting detectable gamma rays from axions. This discovery would provide key insights into the elusive ...

Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration. At the same time several telescopes, including the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

Discover the stunning 2500-megapixel photomosaic of Andromeda, created from 600 Hubble photos, showcasing the telescope's ...

Astronomers are sounding alarm bells as the world's most precious sky-observing location faces a risk of being blinded by light pollution due to a planned renewable energy project.

Astronomers have unveiled the largest-ever photomosaic of the Andromeda galaxy, a sprawling celestial giant with over 1 ...

Something pretty extraordinary happened over Spain on a Saturday night recently. What folks first thought was a meteorite ...