A team of astronomers studying the distribution of galaxies in nearby space has discovered something truly extraordinary: a ...

A NASA study predicts that 96% of the images from the ARRAKIHS mission will be contaminated by the light from the more than ...

Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been ...

Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been ...

New simulations reveal that the Milky Way’s odd split between two chemically distinct groups of stars isn’t a universal ...

Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been revealed by a new ...

Saturn’s rings are not the permanent fixture they appear to be through a backyard telescope. Planetary scientists now agree ...

For most of human history, the Milky Way has been a hazy band of light, a backdrop rather than a map. Now, by reading the ...

Scientists have observed the largest-known rotating structure in the cosmos - a gargantuan thread-like assemblage of hundreds ...

The X‑arithmetic technique offers a powerful new way to map the physics of other galactic structures across the universe and ...

One of the most spectacular meteor showers of the year reaches its peak this week—giving skywatchers the chance to see up to ...

"We really needed the sensitivity of JWST. We also needed the 100 times magnification from gravitational lensing from a galaxy cluster between us and LAP1-B." Astronomers have discovered that the ...