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

Rubin’s completion converged with technological advancements that are poised to spread the data it produces far and wide to ...

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

The only evening planet for July is Mars, faint red in the west at dusk, and getting lost in the Sun’s glare by August. High ...

The decade-long wait for U.K. astronomers ends as the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory reveals dazzling first images.

Alternative to fireworks? Stargazers could instead catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way ...

was our galaxy's formation typical or unique? "The JWST images provided a window into galaxies that resemble the Milky Way's early state, bringing us valuable insights from galaxies far away." The ...

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

The Andromeda galaxy is also known as Messier 31. It is a spiral galaxy located about 2.5 million light-years from Earth. On ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope continues to reshape our understanding of the universe by providing unprecedented views ...

In an unprecedented discovery, astronomers have detected a rare exoplanet located at the very edge of the Milky Way galaxy, ...

Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new ...