By employing a new and improved supercollider, scientists are hoping to dissect the very fabric of the Universe and calculate ...
NASA's achievements, from the iconic Apollo missions to the James Webb Telescope, have redefined space exploration and ...
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a dusty yet sparkling scene from one of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud. The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy ...
Hubble has previously imaged the same nebula, with an image released in 2023 and another shared in 2020. You might also recognize the name of this nebula as it was made world famous when the James ...
Generally, the nights of and near the new moon – when the moon is not illuminated – are better for most stargazing experiences. Here are the dates of new moons this year.
In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...
Astronomers have detected fast-repeating radio bursts from a distant "dead" galaxy that should not contain the energy to ...
Are we alone in space? ☄️ Are there other civilizations on other planets? The Milky Way, home to our Solar System, counts numerous planets and stars. ? Can there be life there? We've gathered a list ...
The Large Magellanic Cloud is located about 1,60,000 light-years away and is between 10-20 percent as massive as the Milky ...
To put the wind speeds into perspective, the fastest winds ever observed in our solar system are on Neptune, at a speed of ...
At just over 20,000 mph, experts say they're the fastest of their kind on any known planet. Find out more here.
High radiation during a time of frenzied star formation in the Milky Way left one stellar population with few chances to form planets, a study reports.