A new study examines how much material from the closest star system to Earth will end up in orbit around the Sun, and how ...

A technique called sonification allows new discoveries, brings out subtleties in dense data, and makes astronomy more accessible.

A nebula that neighbors the Milky Way galaxy happens to be a powerhouse of forging stars, "a bouquet of thousands of stars in ...

While mapping the nearby universe, astronomers discovered the largest-known structure in the universe, about 425 million to ...

The Tarantula Nebula, also known as 30 Doradus, is revealed in an unusual light in this exceptionally deep Chandra X-ray ...

Enormous Galaxy Clusters Found to be 1.3 Billion Light-Years Wide, Deemed to be The Largest Known Structure In a monumental ...

Webb Telescope captures stunning new images of HH 30, revealing a dynamic protoplanetary disc where planets form.

It’s neither fast nor food, but a spectacular object called HH 30 looks appetizing for astronomers in a new image from the ...

Astronomers spent a decade compiling this special image with the Hubble Space Telescope and then stitched together 600 photos to showcase over 200 million stars.

Hubble Space Telescope captures the dazzling globular cluster NGC 6569, revealing a glittering hoard of stars in the heart of ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...