A photographer in New Zealand captured a once-in-a-lifetime celestial scene that blended multiple rare sky phenomena into one ...

At the heart of the Milky Way, a faint and widespread glow of gamma rays has puzzled astronomers for decades. The light could ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have captured the clearest picture yet of how galaxies formed in the early universe.

The Milky Way galaxy is like a gigantic ocean gyre or eddy that spins and wobbles around its center. But our home galaxy also has a colossal wave rippling through it, pulling and pushing an ocean of ...

Learn how many suns exist in the Milky Way and how to understand how many sun-like stars are out there could help us ...

A powerful new telescope has captured its first glimpse of the cosmos, and could transform our understanding of how stars, ...

By combining the power of ground-based and space-based telescopes, astronomers have discovered a new brown dwarf—a type of ...

On the night of Oct. 5 to 6, 1923, Edwin Hubble discovered a new star — and revealed the utter vastness of the universe. Hubble was looking at the cosmos with the 100-inch Hooker telescope at the ...

The Methuselah Star, also known asHD 140283, has long been a subject of fascination among astronomers. Its age, initially estimated to be older than the universe itself, challenged our understanding ...

Astronomers at the Center for Research in Information and Communication Technologies (CITIC) at the University of A Coruña, ...

The universe is truly magical: vast, mysterious, and endlessly fascinating. There’s something almost unreal about being able to see photos captured from the depths of space, where time and distance ...

HD 140283, better known as the Methuselah star, is around 200 light-years from Earth, in the constellation of Libra. It is known to be a high-velocity, sub-giant star, and one of the closest ...