The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has been used to discover REBELS-25, a Milky Way-like galaxy from the ...

Hubble was recently retrained on NGC 6302, known as the "Butterfly Nebula," to observe it across a more complete spectrum of light. This Hubble telescope snapshot of MyCn18, a young planetary nebula, ...

It's hard to imagine that someday, the Milky Way galaxy will cease to exist. Looking up at the stars, it feels as though ...

Why is the expansion of our Universe accelerating? Twenty-five years after its discovery, this phenomenon remains one of the greatest scientific mysteries. Solving it involves testing the fundamental ...

The results of our study provide the first solid evidence that globular clusters formed through multiple star-formation ...

These are big, literally cosmic questions, and astronomers continue to struggle to nail down the answers. Different ...

Taken from the Spitzer Space Telescope, the display is a composite of 800,000 frames, showing supernova bubbles and remnants ...

Large galaxies, like the Milky Way, attract smaller galaxies. Our solar system's cosmic neighborhood spans 100,000 ...

Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery of a neutron star in the Milky Way that rotates at an astonishing 716 times per second, placing it among the fastest-spinning stars ever observed. The ...

When we go backwards in time through the history of the cosmos, the distances and volumes shrink, while the average energy ...

How would you like to see the farthest thing visible to the naked eye? It’s possible, but you’ll need to bundle up and sit ...

Massive stars about eight times more massive than the Sun explode as supernovae at the end of their lives. The explosions, ...