Centuries before other galaxies were known to exist, astronomers called them “spiral nebulas.” Today the defunct term still ...

Michael Steven Harris earned People's Choice at the British Photography Awards for this stacked, long-exposure image ...

Astronomers have for the first time detected a coronal mass ejection from another star, shedding light on worlds orbiting red ...

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The ESA's Euclid space telescope has been in space for just over a year, investigating some of the deepest mysteries of the ...

The current rate of star formation at the Galactic Center appears to be lower than in the rest of the Galaxy. A new study led ...

The night sky often feels calm, yet the early universe tells a very different story. A newly studied ancient galaxy, seen as ...

The old saying, “The more things change, the more they stay the same" certainly applies to the known universe. Here we see ...

Astronomers have discovered that the Seven Sisters of the Pleiades star cluster have more stellar siblings than we thought  — ...

Explore the evolving rare earth hypothesis, highlighting new findings on habitability and the conditions for complex life on ...