Astronomers analyzing the interstellar object known as 3I/ATLAS say new trajectory and composition data point to an origin ...

Near the crowded heart of the Milky Way, the James Webb Space Telescope has picked out a dense, turbulent pocket of gas that ...

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

Limits shape our choices. With chatty Mercury squaring restrictive Saturn at 2:15 AM EST, we can meet delays with enduring ...

The Milky Way was once a textbook example of how a spiral galaxy should form and evolve. Now a wave of new observations and ...

A Christmas Tree-shaped star cluster inside NGC 2264 reveals active star formation 2,700 light-years from Earth.

Benjamin Barakat’s award-winning astrophotograph reveals Socotra’s surreal bottle tree beneath a pristine Milky Way ...

Understanding how the Milky Way formed means looking far beyond the bright spiral you see in the night sky. A new study led ...

In Part 2 of his story, Benita Albert tells of astronomer Bob Benjamin's career, including teaching and now being a NASA consultant.

A new study led by Dr. Dana Alina (Nazarbayev University), with key contributions from NU researchers Adel Umirbayeva, Alua Mukhash, and Danial ...

In this James Webb telescope image, the gigantic molecular cloud near our galaxy's center appears as a canvas of pink and ...

NASA’s SPHEREx Observatory maps the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, enabling 3D galaxy distribution studies, cosmic ...