A new survey maps nearby K-type stars and shows why these long-lived, stable stars are important targets in the search for ...

Scientists have detected a surprisingly hot galaxy cluster dating back to the universe’s infancy. The cluster formed far earlier and burned far hotter than current models predict. Researchers believe ...

The galaxy cluster appears hotter and more mature than it should for its young age, challenging what we think we know about ...

After a 35-year journey, Voyager 1 finally reached interstellar space in 2012. The most distant human-made has to venture on ...

Decades in the making, NASA's X-ray timelapse shows a stellar explosion expanding into space at up to 2% the speed of light.

The researchers describe Cloud-9 as a failed galaxy, a "relic" or remnant of the processes that gave rise to early galaxies. Alejandro Benitez-Llambay suggested that the ...

Cloud-9 entered the picture in 2023, when astronomers using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) in ...

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...

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

A sonification of the Milky Way galaxy's core has been turned into sheet music. Find out how it was done. Credit: NASA/CXC/A.

We are going to be getting a lot of exciting new information about galaxies in 2026, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, who can't wait to see what it can tell us ...

Astronomers have created a detailed forecast of where they expect to observe future stellar explosions in a nearby galaxy, ...