ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.

Astronomers have achieved a groundbreaking feat by capturing the first clear image of a star in another galaxy. This ...

An ultra-deep image from the National Science Foundation's Dark Energy Camera reveals a wide variety of galaxies in the ...

The Minoans were a powerful but mysterious naval civilization in the Bronze Age Mediterranean, but how was their calendar like?

Astronomers have traced two mysterious fast radio bursts from space to wildly different places, which suggests the phenomenon ...

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A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that ...

The future of galaxies remains one of the most interesting topics for experts. In fact, they will not survive the passage of ...

Have you ever looked at the beach and wondered how many grains of sand there are? That can be mind-boggling to think about.

Two stars in Wolf-Rayet 140 collide, forming carbon-rich dust. Webb captured 17 expanding dust shells, revealing ...

Space exploration is no longer the domain of countries alone. It’s now rapidly becoming the domain of private interests.

If you were to perfectly follow the steps in An Idiot's Guide to Making a Solar System, you should eventually find yourself ...