New research from the SAGA Survey, comparing the Milky Way with 101 similar galaxies, unveils how our galaxy differs ...

The discovery was made by Imad Pasha, a doctoral student at Yale University, who stumbled upon the unique galaxy while examining a ground-based imaging survey. "This ...

You’ll find several bright planets, stars and obvious constellations in the February evening sky. The most obvious constellation this month is Orion. To find Orion, face south and look for Orion’s ...

Al Jabbar is one of the Arabic names for Orion, the “Hunter", one of winter's most conspicuous constellations.

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Alpha Centauri is a triple star system located about 25 trillion miles away. Its brightest star, Alpha Centauri A, is similar to the Sun in both size and brightness. With a visual magnitude of 0.0 ...

Gamblers must now play at Star’s flagship Sydney casino using a card-based system, rather than cash. And the Sydney casino is subject to a strict cash limit, which currently sits at $5000 but ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar ... that a visiting star-size object ...

Rigel is the 7th brightest star and is the brightest of the 10 brightest stars in terms of actual magnitude. It’s 810 light years away and it’s a blue-white supergiant that’s 50,000 times ...