In a study published in the Astrophysical Journal, a team of researchers led by Kristen McQuinn, a scientist at the Space ...
Astronomers have made new discoveries about young star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), using the James Webb ...
NASA astronaut Don Pettit is currently on his third stay on the International Space Station where he works with other astronauts to conduct experiments and maintain the celestial outpost. But in his ...
The European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia telescope has completed its objective - making the most detailed and precise map of ...
There’s plenty of action at the center of the galaxy, where a supermassive black hole (SMBH) known as Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) literally holds the galaxy together. Part of that action is the creation ...
A cosmic object spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope has flummoxed astronomers. Now a research team has studied hundreds ...
Leo P, a small galaxy and a distant neighbor of the Milky Way, is lighting the way for astronomers to better understand star formation and how a galaxy grows. In a study published in the Astrophysical ...
For humans, the most important star in the universe is our Sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the Andromeda galaxy. Don't go looking for it -- the flickering star is 2.2 million ...
The intrepid mapping mission has collected more than three trillion observations that'll change the way we see our neck of ...
A team of astronomers led by David Sand, a professor of astronomy at the University of Arizona Steward Observatory, has uncovered three faint and ...
NASA's Parker Solar Probe has flown into the Sun's corona. Structures known as coronal streamers and the Milky Way can be ...