Ten areas in the sky were selected as “deep fields” that the Dark Energy Camera imaged several times during the survey, ...

Highlighting 10 major astronomical milestones of the past century in celebration of the Royal Greenwich Observatory’s 350th ...

My quest for a true literary experience resulted in choucroute, a surprise organ feast, an epiphany at the Louvre, ...

Tucked along a scenic bend of the Rio Grande about 150 miles south of Albuquerque, this quirky hamlet (lovingly shortened to “T or C” by those in the know) offers a masterclass in desert-paced living ...

Astronomers taken on the role of cosmic archeologists, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to excavate over 100 disk ...

A new study published in the journal Nature Astronomy found that there is a 50-50 chance that the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy could collide in the next few billion years. KXAN's space ...

While good news for the Milky Way galaxy, the latest forecast may be moot for humanity. "We likely won't live to see the benefit," lead author Till Sawala of the University of Helsinki said in an ...

A new study using images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has helped to answer a continuous question in astronomy ...

The Milky Way galaxy is around 100,000 light-years in diameter, containing our solar system and many other objects. Our solar system orbits the galaxy's center, taking about 250 million years to ...

For more than a century, astronomers have watched the Andromeda galaxy, a massive swirl of neighboring stars, speed toward the Milky Way. And in recent years, measurements using the Hubble Space ...

Astronomers have located a rare exoplanet on the edge of the Milky Way. The exoplanet, a gas giant named AT2021uey b, orbits a low-mass star and is located about 3,200 light-years away from Earth ...