A mysterious glow at the center of the Milky Way has puzzled astronomers for more than a decade. New research offers an ...

On the night of Oct. 5, 1923, Edwin Hubble observed a strange star that flickered in intensity at regular intervals. The star ...

A mysterious glow has been detected in the Milky Way, challenging our understanding of cosmic emissions and hinting at the ...

The Hubble Space Telescope reveals how color filters tease out the life cycles of stars in spiral galaxy NGC 6000 — while a ...

Famed scientist Avi Loeb is investigating the newly found quasi-moon 2025 PN7, questioning if it is an artificial alien probe ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is considered a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. It's actually visible to the naked eye from the Southern Hemisphere and is an ideal hub for studying star formation ...

Using the James Webb telescope, astronomers estimate the number of galaxies in the universe to be roughly two trillion (2,000,000,000,000). This is about 10 times as many as previously thought ...

Anyone who studies planetary formation would relish the opportunity to get a close-up look at an interstellar object. Sending a mission to one would undoubtedly yield a scientific payoff. There’s a ...

Join in for live views of our nearby galactic neighborhood from the dark skies at McDonald Observatory.

Exoplanet hunters Christopher Watson and Annelies Mortier explain the long search for a 'twin Earth' capable of sustaining ...

It’s an astronomical version of the tortoise and the hare, with the longest GRB ever recorded releasing more energy than the ...

A world-first discovery of binary stars could be the first step in building a more complete picture of how our galaxy formed, according to astronomers from The Australian National University (ANU).