The first ever space telescope, the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 (OAO-2), was launched into the low Earth orbit in ...

Melon Quest 2025 has officially begun, an informal competition in our household to see who can identify and claim the best ...

A vast filament of gas stretching across the cosmos may help solve the mystery of the Universe’s missing matter. Astronomers have identified a massive filament of hot gas connecting four galaxy ...

"We have discovered a galaxy that has been 'perfectly preserved' for billions of years, a true archaeological find that tells ...

Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way appears in the night sky across the ...

We are entering a new era of cosmic exploration. The new Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile will transform astronomy with its ...

An international team of researchers has analyzed 111 JWST images of distant edge-on galaxies, or ones where the alignments ...

The study revealed a consistent trend: in the earlier universe ... questions in astronomy: was our galaxy's formation typical or unique? "The JWST images provided a window into galaxies that resemble ...

Cosmic filament The newly-discovered filament connecting four galaxy clusters ... around 650 million light-years from the Milky Way contains one of the highest concentrations of galaxies in the known ...

If Luis Alfaro's world premiere has some growing pains, its fusion of the mythological and prosaic in the story of a Central ...

Present-day disk galaxies often contain a thick, star-filled outer disk and an embedded thin disk of stars. For instance, our ...

NASA has released a breathtaking new image of the Andromeda Galaxy, our closest galactic neighbor. Also known as Messier 31, or M31, Andromeda is located about 2.5 million light-years from Earth.