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

The idea for the time-lapse originated from a request to create an educational tool that would help students understand Earth ...

The discovery of Inkathazo is part of a larger effort to explore the southern sky, an area relatively unstudied for giant radio galaxies. It is the third GRG found in a small region, suggesting that ...

South Africa's MeerKAT telescope has revealed a remarkable cosmic discovery—Inkathazo, a newly identified giant radio galaxy ...

Astronomers discovered ultra-faint dwarf galaxies, frozen for 13 billion years, offering rare insights into early cosmic ...

NASA's SPHEREx observatory undergoes testing at BAE Systems in Boulder, Colorado, in August 2024. Launching no earlier than Feb. 27 ...

James Webb’s latest images of the Pillars of Creation reveal stunning details, but astronomers suspect these cosmic towers ...

A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien ...

In NASA's latest survey, experts detected black holes hidden behind thick clouds of gas and dust and others that are not.

Shaped like a megaphone, the upcoming mission will map the entire sky in infrared light to answer big questions about the ...

Milky Way is an arcade game where you have to avoid intergalactic dangers by dodging asteroids and other obstacles to get to ...

The NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory will create an opportunity for precision in space exploration that has never been ...