Galaxies shine in a rainbow of emissions from gas, dust, and stars. Each of these building blocks emits light at specific ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to ...

The team behind the Rubin Observatory just couldn't resist waiting until morning to share the first pictures from the world's ...

New research led by Dr. James De Buizer at the SETI Institute and Dr. Wanggi Lim at IPAC at Caltech revealed surprising ...

This portrait from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope puts the nearby galaxy NGC 4449 in the spotlight. The galaxy is ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has produced the most comprehensive survey of the Andromeda galaxy, revealing new clues about its history. The Hubble survey, assembled from over 1,000 orbits and ...

“they created the conditions and elemental abundances that the stars in our galaxy formed from,” he adds. Those very early generations of Population III stars were nothing like stars like our ...

This is the conclusion of a study by researchers from China, who said such a presence could explain the mysterious nature of rapidly moving stars in our galaxy's halo. "Hypervelocity stars ...

The universe is around 13.8 billion years old, so the presence of 13 billion-year-old stars in our galaxy's thin disk means that the disk must have formed in the first billion years following the ...

Researchers found seven stars in our galaxy that might host alien megastructures called Dyson spheres. But these stars' strange behavior could also be explained by other phenomena, like clouds of ...

While our pocket of the universe is home to a solitary sun, that's not the norm. More than half of all stars in the sky have one or more companions, yet until now, none have been found near a ...

The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years. While the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times of year are better for ...