The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are irregular dwarf galaxies and satellites of the Milky Way. The LMC is about 163,000 ...

The galaxy’s most common stars may be missing a key ingredient for life: Long-lived moons. Most stars in our galaxy are small ...

A new breakthrough study fromRutgers University is offering insights into one of the universe’s most extraordinary ...

Researchers have uncovered evidence that Uranus and Neptune could be far rockier on the inside than anyone expected.

The annual Geminid meteor shower is set to peak this weekend, offering stargazers a chance to catch what is often one of the ...

The cold and remote planets originally earned their label of "ice giants" to contrast their interiors from those of Jupiter ...

Scientists have confirmed that colossal collisions between galaxies trigger titanic eruptions in the centers of those galaxies, and the discovery is thanks to an artificial intelligence tool that was ...

Cosmic dawn galaxies seen by JWST reveal hidden clues about dark matter and keep rival theories about its true nature alive.

Current physics is speeding toward a breaking point, as astronomers confirm that the Hubble tension in new data.

Record-breaking ultrafast outflow (UFO) winds from a supermassive black hole flung matter across the universe close to the speed of light.

For much of the twentieth century, scientists expected the expanding universe to slow over time. The opposite turned out to ...

The Boston area lost several luminaries in 2025, but their contributions won’t soon be forgotten. From Kitty Dukakis’s ...