They're called ghost particles for a reason. They're everywhere—trillions of them constantly stream through everything: our ...

They're called ghost particles for a reason. They're everywhere – trillions of them constantly stream through everything: our ...

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers traced how Milky Way–like galaxies formed and changed over time.

Do all stars exist in galaxies, or do some exist in intergalactic space?Thomas GriffilthAtlantic City, New Jersey Nearly all ...

Globular clusters are often described as ancient, tightly bound fossils of the early Milky Way. It has been believed that ...

From volcanic landscapes to world-class observatories, a journey through the Canary Islands reveals a night sky unlike ...

On Jan. 15, 2025, the Gaia spacecraft took its last image. Then the craft ran a final round of engineering tests, fired its ...

On New Year’s Day, Texas resident Sue Calhoun bit into a Milky Way bar and felt something hard that clearly wasn’t candy.

A new study shows how Milky Way chemical tracks emerge from shifting star formation and gas supply, reshaping ideas about the ...

A new study led by Dr. Vivian Tan, who recently completed her Ph.D. at York University under the supervision of Prof. Adam Muzzin, provides the most ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is turning the Milky Way inside out, exposing the buried engines that actually drive our galaxy’s star production. By peering through dust, resolving crowded stellar ...

A test model of the Perseverance rover, designed to explore the surface of Mars, sits in a garage at NASA’s Jet Propulsion ...