A research team led by Assistant Professor Makoto Miyoshi of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) has ...

Following the initial flare in the SMC, observations with ground- and space-based telescopes revealed the outburst was indeed ...

Near the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy roughly 200,000 light-years from Earth, lies the young ...

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

Carbon dioxide’s role in warming early exoplanetary atmospheres is likely necessary to create a habitable zone. But it could ...

Once blocked from view, the most massive young star cluster in the Milky Way has finally been revealed by the James Webb ...

Social media users were captivated by the incredible view in the viral clip, with one saying: "My jaw has never dropped so ...

The photo of the day “Milky Way, Venus and Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS at Haleakala” comes to us via Jeanna Thacker. Send your ...

For 30 years, celestial bodies have been discovered that have not made it to the stars – but so far only in the Milky Way.

The first fragment captures approximately 100 million celestial sources, including stars within our Milky Way and distant ...

Image: Radio image of Sagittarius A* in the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, obtained from this re-analysis. The structure is ...

Astronomers hypothesize that a long-ago dwarf galaxy dubbed Loki may have merged with the Milky Way when our galaxy was in ...