Over the last week, we’ve been entertained by a pre-Halloween visitor from the depths of our solar system. It’s Comet ...

Modern astronomy has clung to the belief that the relativistic outflows or jets, responsible for the existence of ...

A probabilistic new map of the universe surrounding the Milky Way reveals that our galaxy is likely part of an even larger ...

Using the Gaia space telescope, astronomers have observed 55 massive stars ejected from their home star cluster in the Large ...

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Light pollution can obstruct your view of catching spectacular cosmic sights like meteor showers, distant planets, the Milky ...

Scientists from the SAGA Survey have studied 101 Milky Way-mass galaxies, revealing that our galaxy may have fewer satellite ...

The Moon passes several planets as Jupiter’s Galilean moons delight and Saturn’s satellite Iapetus reaches western elongation ...

Astronomically speaking, Westerlund 1 is very young with an estimated age of between 3.5 million and five million years.

Astronomers have used data from the European Gaia Space Telescope to discover 55 high-speed stars launched from the young ...

Dozens of stars fleeing a neighbor of the Milky Way suggest these escapees could have an outsized influence on their cosmic surroundings.

Astronomers are reveling in the James Webb Space Telescope’s discoveries about the formative epoch of cosmic history.