A quiet, glowing gas cloud has been hiding in plain sight not far from Earth. For decades, astronomers have predicted that ...

An object dubbed 3I/ATLAS is only the third interloper from outside the Solar System seen in all of human history.

See the iconic Pillars of Creation in this 3D visualization created from James Webb and Hubble Space Telescope data. Credits ...

Astronomers have observed an object that originated from beyond our solar system, thought to be an interstellar comet, ...

I/ATLAS is only the third interstellar object ever detected. You can stream the object live today, or maybe see it from your ...

Researchers have used machine learning to dramatically speed up the processing time when simulating galaxy evolution coupled with supernova explosion. This approach could help us understand the ...

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

Astronomers are excited about the first test images released today from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which show the ...

Gaia’s all-sky view of our Milky Way galaxy and neighboring galaxies, based on measurements of nearly 1.7 billion stars in the mission’s first two years of taking data.

This artist’s conception shows the view from Earth some 3.75 billion years from now, as Andromeda (at left) appears much larger in our sky, while the plane of the Milky Way (at right) has ...

3D structure of the Milky Way's local bubble created using data from eROSITA. (Image credit: Michael Yeung/MPE) This revealed that the LHB is stretched toward the poles of the galactic hemisphere.